Elyan Labs ports, builds, optimizes, and deploys software on IBM Power servers (ppc64le / Linux on Power) — one of the few independent shops that runs Power hardware in-house and contributes to the PowerPC toolchain upstream. Remote, worldwide.
The wedge: almost nobody runs big-endian / ppc64 / POWER hardware in-house anymore — so flagship projects carry real bugs on those targets that no active contributor can reproduce. We own the hardware and the skill, so we walk in with a fix they can’t get anywhere else. That’s how a first-time contributor lands patches in OpenSSL, HACL*, Falco, and LLVM. For perspective: fewer than 90 people in history have ever contributed to HACL* (the verified crypto inside Firefox, Python, and the Linux kernel) — we’re one of them.
Start a Power project See the proofWhether you're modernizing on Power, adding ppc64le to your support matrix, or squeezing more out of the hardware you already own — we work at the level the job needs, from a single build fix to a full port and deployment.
Bring x86/amd64 software to IBM Power: build-system changes, dependency porting, and validation on real POWER hardware.
Track down endianness bugs, alignment issues, and architecture assumptions that break on Power — the hard-to-find class of bug.
Hand-optimization with VSX/AltiVec and POWER10 MMA, cache and prefetch tuning, NUMA-aware threading. We made llama.cpp ~9× faster on POWER8.
Reproducible Linux-on-Power builds, ppc64le CI pipelines, and packaging so Power stays a first-class target, not an afterthought.
Get code running and supported on your IBM Power systems — build, deploy, and harden, on your hardware or ours.
Run modern AI workloads on POWER — we built a sovereign LLM inference stack on POWER8 with custom VSX kernels.
Most consultancies have never touched a Power server. We run one, ship for it, and improve the toolchain everyone else depends on:
Running AIX, IBM i, or Linux on Power and need modern software built, ported, or deployed on it.
Need ppc64le added to your build/support matrix, or a stubborn Power-only bug fixed and upstreamed.
Want to run inference or compute workloads on POWER and need the kernels and tuning to make it fast.
Moving to (or off) Power and need the porting, validation, and deployment handled by someone who's done it.
All three. We run POWER8 in-house and our upstream LLVM work targets the POWER10 ISA (Power ISA v3.1); the same ppc64le toolchain and techniques apply across POWER8/9/10.
Yes — that's a core service: build-system changes, big-endian/SIMD fixes, CI, and validation on real Power hardware.
Either. We can build and validate on our own POWER8, or connect to your Power systems for build and deployment.
Lake Charles, Louisiana — but IBM Power work is remote and we take clients worldwide.
From a single ppc64le build fix to a full port-and-deploy — the first conversation is free.
Email Scott — IBM Power project