OneFourTwentyFour

Hello, Internet!

We're OneFourTwentyFour: a consulting duo, a wonderful friendship, and your backend team's next best friend. Our development style and processes revolve around some core ideas -- incremental improvement, small & continuous deployment, and iterating quickly. Work with us to bring these into your future or existing software practices.

We are exceptional at:

• making backend services fast from the API request all the way to the database
• listening, learning, and understanding existing team practices and making useful, incremental improvements that will stick
• finding and fixing gnarly problems at all parts of the stack

Receipts provided

Chris and Marshall are software developers who have taken startups from Seed Round to Series B and Series B to acquisition. We met while working at Elastic (as part of the Swiftype acquisition). We've been very important (i.e. the "go to person" if production goes down) engineers at fast growing startups like Swiftype, Truework, (a couple of our clients!) and Code42. If you want the nitty-gritty... we would be considered "team leads" for the majority of our software careers.

What's cooler than name-dropping companies? Actual results from our software careers:

• launched two products with a team of under 10: Workplace Search and App Search (from idea to launch in under a month!)
• took an employee verification network from thousands to over a million
• sharded quickly growing MySQL infrastructure within a SaaS company with minimal downtime

When to work with us

People start talking to us when production is experiencing issues with performance/stability, right after spikes in traffic, and when they are ready to take their codebase/team size/experience to the next level. Here are some highlights of our consulting work:

• took a high profile SF Bay area client's Elastic cluster from intermittent yellow/red status to green
• within a month, we taught a team Terraform, AWS basics, and best cutover practices such that they can migrate away from services on legacy infrastructure in two days
• transitioned a team to daily deploys from a twice-a-month deployment schedule

Let's chat

You can find us in San Francisco! We're happy to meet up for a coffee, a drink, or a friendly game of 1-4-24!

Email us at hello@onefourtwentyfour.com, we're friendly.