Hix Digital

Hix Digital · est. 2010

Senior engineering, quietly delivered.

25 years of building web applications, fractional CTO work, and high-trust delivery for NASDAQ-listed health-tech, multinationals, and founder-led teams. One principal at the front, a trusted network behind.

simon@hixdigital.com What I do
25 years shipping
10+ named clients
1 principal engineer

01 · About

One engineer.
The right team behind him.

I'm Simon Hicks. I've been building web applications for 25 years, most of it for clients who can't afford to ship something brittle.

Health-tech, regulated industries, NASDAQ-listed parents, and founders staking the company on the next release. Hix Digital is the structure that lets me bring in the right specialists for each engagement, without the overhead of an agency or the dilution of a team you didn't choose.

  • PrincipalSimon Hicks
  • Established2010
  • BasedUnited Kingdom
  • Working withFounders, CTOs, boards
  • StatusSelectively open for new engagements

02 · Services

Five ways
I get involved.

  1. 01

    Software architecture

    System design, technical due diligence, and architectural review for products that have outgrown their first build.

  2. 02

    Fractional CTO

    Senior technical leadership for founders and scale-ups: strategy, hiring, vendor selection, and the calls that compound.

  3. 03

    Full-stack delivery

    Production web applications, APIs, and integrations. PHP, JavaScript, Python, and the boring tools that keep working.

  4. 04

    AI integration

    Pragmatic LLM and ML integrations: automations, agents, and assistants wired into real workflows, not demos.

  5. 05

    Team augmentation

    A curated freelance network spun up around your work: engineers, designers, and specialists who have shipped before.

03 · Selected clients

Quietly trusted by
serious teams.

A selection of organisations I've worked with directly or led engineering for over the past 25 years. Health-tech features heavily: diagnostics, genetics, screening, and consumer wellbeing.

04 · Personal work

Things I run
for myself.

Long-running personal ventures. Not case studies, not pitches. Just things I've kept alive because they matter to me.

05 · Contact

Let's talk.

If you're weighing a tricky build, looking for a fractional CTO, or want a senior pair of eyes on something already in flight, drop a line. I read every email myself.

Or reply to anything I've already sent you. I'm easy to find.