North America

With its end-to-end commerce platform for cloud-based products and services, AppDirect has been helping organizations such as Comcast and GoDaddy simplify the digital supply chain since 2009. When Director of Software Development Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte started working there in...

Founded in 2012, Nav provides small business owners with access to their business credit scores from all three major commercial credit bureaus⁠—Equifax, Experian, and Dun & Bradstreet⁠—as well as details on their businesses’ financial health and financing options...

The largest online consignment store for women’s and children’s clothes, ThredUP is focused on getting consumers to think second-hand first. “We’re disrupting the retail industry, and it’s really important to us to make sure that as we’re building...

A photography app for mobile, VSCO was born in the cloud in 2011. In the beginning, “we were using Rackspace and had one PHP monolith application talking to MySQL database, with FTP deployments, no containerization, no orchestration,” says...

A global media and technology company, Comcast launched its X1 Cloud DVR service in 2014, allowing millions of customers to download or stream content onto mobile and IP-connected devices. Two years later, a new greenfield project for that...

In just seven years of existence, Uber has become an everyday convenience in more than 700 cities around the world. To help manage its exponential growth and resulting scale—the mobile app has connected riders and drivers more than...

The second biggest municipality in Canada, Montréal has a large number of legacy systems keeping the government running. And while they don’t quite date back to the city’s founding in 1642, “we have systems that are older than...

For most of the 130 million Netflix subscribers waiting for the next season of Stranger Things, remote procedure calls (RPC) probably don’t mean anything. But for the Runtime Platform team responsible for improving developer productivity at the company,...

In less than a decade, Ygrene has funded more than $1 billion in loans for renewable energy projects. A PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing company, “We take the equity in a home or a commercial building, and...

Last fall, MacLeod Broad’s platform team at Workiva was prepping one of the company’s first products utilizing Amazon Web Services when they ran into a roadblock. Early on, Workiva’s backend had run mostly on Google App Engine. But things...