Custom software development · Boston, MA
Custom software development for Boston companies
Boston is life sciences and asset management sharing a subway line. Biotech and pharma along the Cambridge and Seaport corridors, a dense research university layer feeding both, and one of the largest concentrations of institutional money in the country.
Data platforms where provenance is part of the product rather than a reporting afterthought, and where the pipeline has to be replayable because somebody will eventually ask how a number was reached.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Waltham
What custom software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, because that is when it is cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
Work a Boston buyer would recognise
Stitching 400M+ athlete records across disparate sources with automated retries and real-time visibility, which is the shape of most life-sciences data work we are asked about.
Health & Wellness
Athlinks
Athlinks needed a pipeline to stitch together more than 400 million athlete records across disparate sources. TechFabric built a multi-tiered serverless architecture on Temporal, giving the team granular control, automated retries, and real-time visibility across a complex pipeline.
Validation is part of the build
21 CFR Part 11 and GxP treat an audit trail as a system requirement rather than a reporting feature, and an unvalidated pipeline is not a pipeline you can submit behind. Designing for replay from the start is what makes validation a review instead of a rewrite.
None of that is unusual for Boston, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
Where we work from
TechFabric is headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and works with companies across the United States. We do not keep an office in Boston and are not going to pretend otherwise on a page you found by searching for one.
Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Most delivery is remote or hybrid because that suits the work. We travel for the parts that go better in a room, which is usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
FAQ
Custom software development in Boston: common questions
Do you work with Boston companies?
Yes. TechFabric is headquartered at 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295, and works with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Do you have an office in Boston?
No. We have one office and it is in Gilbert, Arizona. Most of this work is remote or hybrid because that is what suits it, and we travel for the parts that go better in a room, usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Do you work under GxP or 21 CFR Part 11?
We build to the requirements those impose, which is a replayable pipeline, an immutable record of what changed, and access resolved at read time. Formal validation is your quality team's process and we support it with systems designed to be validated rather than systems that have to be explained afterwards.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Custom software development elsewhere
Nine of the metros we publish for. The full list is here.
New York, NY
New York, Brooklyn, Queens
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Alpharetta, Marietta
Miami, FL
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Wilmington
Detroit, MI
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn
Tampa, FL
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston
Dallas, TX
Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano