Gordian is a software platform that provides services for the airline industry. It provides a standardized interface where final consumers, web agencies, and airlines are abstracted from the complexity behind each party's technology, systems, and rules; for consulting ticketing availability and purchase, to ancillaries like additional baggage or seat selection.

Technology-wise, Gordian's platform runs on JavaScript, NodeJS, Postgres, Heroku, and AWS. They also use Python for data management. 

The engineering department is divided into 3 teams: Content in charge of Backend services, integration with airlines, and other services APIs. Centaur in charge of Web automation and browser extensions. These tools help bookers by automating repetitive tasks.  Core, the team in charge of Infrastructure and maintenance of the main Gordian system. They expose APIs for partners/customers to consume.

An interesting feature developed by the company is a unified API that allows clients to access information or purchase tickets regardless of the airline systems (More information here).

Gordian was founded in 2017 and its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington state. They currently have more than 70 employees distributed across the globe with 50% of them belonging to the engineering department. They started working with Austin Software in June 2021 and currently have 6 engineers working with them, 2 in the Centaur team and 4 in the Content team.

If you want to know more about it:

• visit the site https://www.gordiansoftware.com/

• reach out to our AS Team by slack!

OwnLocal is a company focused on digital advertisement. Located in Austin, Texas, and part of YCombinator’s Winter 2010 generation, it partners with almost 4000 publishers globally to provide them with the technology and tools necessary to drive new revenue, strengthen sales, and improve advertiser retention in print and online platforms. 

Their main business line consists in taking print ads (PDF, XML, and CSV) provided by publishers and converting them into online widgets for their newspaper website. It also features a directory for each publisher where advertisers (small and medium-size businesses) are listed so people can contact them.

The solution is powered by Google’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract information out of print ads and a user interface to manually adjust or enhance data if necessary. At the moment, OwnLocal is working on extending its product to radio ads and giving further insights to publishers by implementing data analytics dashboards.

Engineering-wise, the team relies on several technologies, including Ruby on Rails for consuming print ads, hosting publisher directories, and providing data dashboards, NodeJS to extract ad content and React for its contractors interface.

Finally, it is important to mention that OwnLocal was Austin Software's very first client and their engineering department is 100% Austin Software powered.

If you want to know more about it:

• visit the site http://www.ownlocal.com

• reach out to our AS Team by slack!

Humming Homes offers a centralized network of skilled trades vendors to high-end house owners and removes the complexity of managing these. Their subscription-based platform operates in areas such as The Hamptons, Fairfield, Westchester, among others, and allows not only to hire contractors for emergency events like a leaking pipe or a broken boiler, but also long term or recurring projects as landscaping and rental management.

Technology wise, the platform is both web and mobile (iOS) based. The back-end is written in Python (Django), utilizes a Postgres DB, and is deployed to Heroku. The web front-end was built using React with TypeScript, while the mobile app was coded in Swift, SwiftUI, and leverages the Composable Architecture. 

Nowadays the team is focused on improving the back-office tool to communicate and manage client projects, boost the platform’s availability and reliability, and also provide new web and mobile features. Following this, we will start working on enhancing the client experience on the web app.

Humming Homes has 30+ employees and started working with Austin Software in October 2021; four of our engineers are currently working on this team and this number will keep on growing! Recently the company raised USD 5,6 million dollars in seed money.

If you want to know more about it:

• visit the site https://www.humminghomes.com/

• reach out to our AS HH Team by slack!

Spot’s founders started this insurance company focused on sport injuries in 2018 with 2 goals in mind: making injury insurance affordable and the overall process less painful.

Their business model takes a holistic approach by providing customized injury insurance policies through both direct-to-consumer and strategic partnerships with companies and organizations.

In order to support both business models from the technology’s standpoint, they chose a cutting-edge stack. 

For cloud infrastructure, they use AWS and within it a microservices architecture. As our Austin Software Spot team progresses, we experiment with new solutions. PostgreSQL was the database chosen to provide both security and performance.

For the backend, we code our services in Typescript with Express, TypeORM and Ts.ED. We are also exploring GraphQL and implementing gRPC for communication between services.

We use a micro frontend architecture in typescript simplified by the Single SPA library, which wraps all our webpack configuration. Every micro frontend that displays UI uses React. For styling, we use tailwinds (a utility class-based solution).

Spot currently has 70 employees and continues to expand. Even though it is headquartered in Austin, TX; their teams are distributed throughout the world. Currently, their engineering department has 15 Austin Software Engineers, making Spot our 3rd biggest partner.

If you want to know more about it:

• visit the site https://www.getspot.com/ 

• check out the team's presentation about the partner and demo of the product below!

• reach out to our AS Spot Team by slack!

Workrise is a startup that provides solutions for workforce management, specialized in skilled trades. It started focusing on the oil and gas industry, but then expanded into wind, solar, construction, defense and other industries. Its solutions help in providing staffing, training and professional services. It leverages technology to provide efficient and powerful tools to scale operations, helping more workers achieve stability, growth and opportunities, as well as the trained workforce businesses need to succeed. 

In terms of technology, there is a legacy platform written in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, the new Core Transactional Platform with NodeJS/Typescript microservices communicated through HTTP and GraphQL with three ReactJS frontend apps, a BPMS system with Java extensions to help track and automate operations, several low-code tools for skilled trades marketplaces in local city markets, and many smaller tools and applications for specific parts of the business.

To support the different stacks, the engineering organization within Workrise includes Engineering Enablement and Shared Services teams (the latter including AS engineers), supporting the legacy platform and providing tools and services to handle infrastructure in GCP with Terraform, Auth0, feature flags with LaunchDarkly, emails, location, logging, distributed tracing and more.

Workrise, formerly known as Rigup is an Austin-based company founded in 2014. It is currently valued at $2.9 billion and has more than 600 employees across 22 offices in the US and UK. This startup was one of the first and biggest clients of Austin Software when we started!

Austin Software engineers can be found in several teams across the Core Platform, Shared Services, Gears (BPMS) and Marketplace Worker Experience.

If you want to know more, visit the site https://www.workrise.com/, or reach out to our AS Workrise team at #workrise in Slack!

Truepill is a tech-enabled pharmacy company dedicated to offering solutions in the pharmaceutical sector. Its services include solutions through APIs to support patient onboarding, telehealth consults, diagnosis, virtual primary care, and medication delivery with both virtual and physical pharmacies.  Its packaging warehouses leverage robotic cells and other automation technologies to handle up to 100,000 prescription orders a day.

Truepill provides a critical health service, therefore it requires state-of-the-art techniques for high availability and high performance. Node.js and MongoDB are widely used technologies throughout the company's projects, as well as React and Graphql for the user-facing applications. GCP and Kubernetes are used for deploying and managing the project's infrastructure.

TruePill was a part of the Spring 2017 batch of YCombinator and is based in San Mateo, California. Currently it has grown not only in the US market but has also started operations in the United Kingdom. They are anticipated to achieve $100 million dollars in revenue, which is double what they did last year. They currently have over 300 employees and of their 70 software developers, 14 are from Austin Software with teammates in Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile and growing. 

Our AS team is working on various projects with some working directly to build mental health products for their Optum clients and others working on internal tools that support the team. 

If you want to know more about it visit the site https://www.truepill.com/ or reach out to our AS Team! 

Stagger is a visual storytelling platform that helps small business owners (lacking complex design software experience) create better digital marketing content for social media and web. 

The product is a graphic drag & drop design platform (much like Canva) built with React that includes templates for users to create social media graphics, presentations, and other visual content. That frontend communicates with a Node.js backend that acts as a hub between several services like a couple of Postgresql databases, an exporter service, batch processes, and the Machine Learning solution. Everything is deployed on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Besides the main technology already mentioned, it uses:

• Cloudinary to manage images/videos

• Mixpanel/Sentry.io/FullStory for analytics, user experience and error reporting tools

• Stripe for payments

• Sendgrid for mail delivery

The company's added value is the machine learning features that provide actionable insights on content that attracts the most customer engagement so business owners can make informed decisions.

Stagger is built by a small team of 4, the founder, the CTO and 2 Austin Software engineers Constanza Curzio and Dario Macchi. The company is based in Texas, United States and the Austin Software engineers are based in Montevideo, Uruguay. 

If you want to know more about it:

•  visit the site https://stagger.com/ 

• check out the team's presentation about the partner and demo of the product below!

• reach out to our AS Team by slack!