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How we do it
We build custom software applications using today’s most advanced technology. But so do a lot of software engineering firms. So what makes us different?
At Speed & Function, we strive to make working with us easy – whether that’s providing seamless integration with your team, rock solid processes, or high-caliber talent that gets it right, first time.
Our unique value lies in our developmental approach. Through focusing on learning, feedback, and transparency, we are able to achieve alignment with our clients (and manage uncertainty and complexity) with speed, flexibility and ease.
We are committed to exceeding your expectations.
Our team of professionals:
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Nick Gluzdov
CEO
Irina Abramson
CFO
Olga Michai
Account Manager
Peter Ovchyn
Head of Sales
Igor Leonets
Head of Delivery
Navi Tulkun
PM practice lead
services
Our integrated approach to software development.
- Agile thinking: Through use of the Scrum framework, we’re able to avoid risks, communicate with transparency and get your product to market more quickly.
- Elastic delivery: To optimize costs, we assign you a lean, mean, self-scaling dev team that functions as-needed, when needed.
- Intensive collaboration: Daily check-ins ensure transparency and simplify the process.
- Local presence: Locations all over the globe mean someone is always available, but if you’re looking for someone in your time zone, our homebase is Philadelphia, PA.
Full stack software engineering, which includes the following practices:
Our Process:
cases
Spark DSG
Founded in 2011, Spark DGS is a design agency based in Doylestown, PA. S&F handles roughly 85% of Spark’s total development work. As the design agency continues to grow, its deliberately collaborative partnership with S&F only matures and expands in more mutually beneficial ways. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the two companies worked at an excruciating pace to successfully design and develop a site for a client, who makes ventilators, urgently needed during the crisis
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SecureCore
SecureCore offers managers of multi-family properties (90% of their plans) customized, actionable emergency response plans. In 2017, SecureCore approached us to “rescue the project” – the app that was crucial to interaction with their paid software. We helped them create a smooth and easy UX to let anybody at the property have access to the software. This way, each member of the organization embraces responsibility and has a solid understanding of the disaster plan: what to do in case of emergency and whom to call.
Technology Stack: MeteorJS, Blaze + React, Apache Cordova, AWS
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CertainTeed
CertainTeed is North America’s leading brand of exterior and interior building products, known for innovation and sustainability. It’s owned by Saint Gobain, a 350 y.o. multinational corporation with $40b revenue and 180,000 employees. The company needed to build a website from scratch that would handle a multi-level catalog of products and lots of educational resources.
S&F joined the development effort that was started by another agency and eventually took on full responsibilities of building a scalable website with easily editable design and powerful search and filtering options.
Technology Stack: Drupal 8, Bootstrap 3
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Simulator for a Major US Airline
When a major US airline needed to overhaul their internal training system, they partnered with Speed & Function to create an ipad-based training simulation. Their existing training platform crashed constantly, resulting in rescheduled trainings. Our solution — we developed a front-end based simulator of the training platform to get their on-boarding process back on track.
Technology Stack: Front-end, Angular 1.5, Redux, SASS
bstow
A SaaS platform that allows users to donate to various non-profits by gathering spare change from the daily purchases. Users have a unique opportunity to seamlessly donate to any charity organizations of their choice by creating accounts and adding bank account. A wide range of email notifications will let user know how much spare change is donated and when they are forwarded to charity organization.
Technology Stack: Node.js (Sails.js framework), MongoDB, Redis, EJS Template Engine, Bluebird, Passport, AngularJS, AngularUI Router, jQuery, UI Bootstrap, LESS, gulp. Third-party services: Stripe, Plaid, Mandrill. Automated testing: Protractor
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Yak Network Platform
Yak platform is a real-time communication platform where video chat meets gamification via question and answer sessions. It will produce white-labeled games for a wide range of clients, such as dating websites and corporations that want to add gamification in the working process.
Technology Stack: AngularJS, Node.js, WebRTC, mobile, iOS native, Android SDKs, Agora, React, React Native, UML, AWS API Gateway, AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, AWS CloudFront CDN, AWS S3 Storage, AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), MongoDB, JSON Web Token, and more
ProctorU
Feature development for a video chat application which allows students to take tests from any location. The service connects a student to a proctor who you can see and hear in real time, get help through the exam process.
Technology Stack: PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, RabbitMQ with STOMP, Adobe Media Server, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash
Safety Tag
A SaaS platform that addresses a problem in youth sports today, where practices and games don’t have medically trained personnel on hand to handle injuries and chronic illnesses.
Technology Stack: Node.js (Express Framework, Sails.js), MongoDB, JSON, jQuery Mobile, LESS, JADE template engine, CoffeeScript, GruntJS, UglifyJS. Testing automation: Cucumber, Jasmine. Jenkins continuous integration. oAuth2. PayPal
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Floors USA
An online area rug superstore built with custom Ruby on Rails technology. We took over feature development and DevOps from the founding team in September of 2013.
Technology Stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Sphinx, AWS.
Higher Next
We designed and developed a comprehensive, interactive, masonry-style help system for a Java applet-based proctoring app. The system collects stats about client actions success/failure and allows to submit feedback. We are currently working on HTML5-based proctoring system that records user actions, audio and video.
Technology Stack: HTML5, CSS, JS, PHP/CodeIgniter, Bootstrap
My Sensory Locations
My Sensory Locations (MSL), is a location based SaaS, a “Yelp” for the special needs community. The goal is to match users with restaurants that fit their sensory and/or physical needs.
Technology Stack: Ruby on Rails 4.2, PostgreSQL, Haml, Bootstrap, jQuery, CarrierWave, ImageMagick, OAuth, Google Geocoder, Yelp API
This is what people think
Speed & Function has been an invaluable collaborator in expediting progress on the Wikimedia Foundation’s yearly engineering roadmap and key development projects. Whether it’s augmenting day to day maintenance of our platform codebase to more complex, strategic projects and experiments - we know we can trust Speed & Function to do the job well (and often ahead of schedule)
Mat Nadrofsky, Wikimedia Foundation
Director of Engineering
The S&F team has taken the time to develop a deep understanding of our program and how it works. They were very quick to pick up our Meteor.js code base and contribute to it productively. They are helping us develop a better workflow and to shape our long term vision for this project. The team has a fast response time and good communication skills.
MJ Klenk, RestoreCore
PRODUCT MANAGER AT SECURECORE
The Developmental Sprint® app, designed by myself and our Chief Business Officer and moved online by Speed & Function, enables individuals and teams to surface and overcome hurdles to success. Within three months of our initial conversation, we had our first beta-version to test with a client. Within six months, we were using it as a cornerstone of our business expansion. Our mission has always been to help people and organizations to get better at getting better. This app has enabled us to scale that mission within an organization by providing a common platform and language for identifying and acting on areas of improvement.
Andy Fleming, The Developmental Edge
Chief Executive Officer
The Developmental Sprint(R) app was my first time creating an online app. I needed a team with patience, compassion, and enthusiasm in order to help me execute against the plan. Speed & Function helped me to not only create the app, but to think through and practice how it would work. As a result, we now have an online app that supports our ever-expanding global business.
Claire Lee, The Developmental Edge
Chief Business Officer
I've been working with Nick and his team for about a year now. The quality of their work is by far the best I've ever seen. Even better, they are willing to spend extra time explaining what they are doing and to help you in any way possible.
Seth Goldstein
CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT GOLDSTEIN MEDIA LLC
By far the best development company I've ever worked with — and I've worked with dozens. They are hands-on, precise, patient, highly-skilled, and actually care about what they are building. It's not a contract for them, they join in as if they are official members of your team.
Jason Sherman
ENTREPRENEUR AND TECH STARTUP EXPERT
The professionalism, care, and attention of the S&F team is fantastic. They take the time to truly understand their clients’ needs, they ask a lot of questions so that nothing is overlooked, and they deliver quickly and efficiently. We have finally found our forever dev team.
Sara Elliott, Encore Editions
CO-OWNER, E-COMMERCE, ART AT ENCORE EDITIONS
Before our partnership with Speed & Function, we had two major outsourcing challenges: 1) poor project management/client services, and 2) lack of quality execution. Freelancers and companies alike produced amateurish deliverables that weren’t complete, the work purely transactional vs. part of our overall strategy. With S&F, we were relieved to see work that was completed end-to-end. We never have to pull teeth to get things finished. Their process demonstrates confidence in their expertise, and it’s helpful that the founder is here and available in Philly.
Jim
COFOUNDER OF A PHILADELPHIA DIGITAL AGENCY
Before finding S&F, we had a handful of web developers that were unresponsive, slow to finish, and often didn't understand what we were trying to fix. In a very quick and responsive turnaround, S&F fixed one of our forms and implemented a few custom modules. They also supported us with some Drupal updates. Our website is now more manageable and secure.
22q Family Foundation
S&F has been instrumental in our project work, especially during ongoing month-over-month engagements. We look at them as an extension of our team. They have a deep pool of solid engineering talent. We never have concerns about the quality of their work or their ability to figure stuff out — that’s their greatest strength.
Justin
FOUNDER OF A GREATER PHILADELPHIA DIGITAL AGENCY
S&F is a solid business partner. Nick and his team are willing to do whatever it takes to make a project successful and to keep the customer satisfied. They are professional and thorough.
Chris Allison, Turnberry Solutions
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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