Custom software development · Tampa, FL
Custom software development for Tampa companies
Tampa carries a financial services back-office concentration larger than the city's profile suggests, alongside healthcare systems and a defence contracting base around MacDill.
Processes that take days, call six systems, wait on a person twice and must never half-complete. That is a different discipline from a request handler and it is where we spend most of our time.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Brandon
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 Tampa buyer would recognise
An automated approval engine that doubled monthly loans processed and replaced more than four manual workflows, which is the back-office automation shape this market buys.
Automotive / Fintech
Auto Approve
Auto Approve connects consumers to a nationwide lender network to refinance vehicle loans. TechFabric built an automated approval engine that doubled monthly loans processed and replaced more than four manual workflows.
Back-office automation is audited too
Financial back-office processing carries the same evidentiary burden as the front office and usually less tooling. A durable workflow that records every step is the difference between an audit that takes a day and one that takes a quarter.
None of that is unusual for Tampa, 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 Tampa 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 Tampa: common questions
Do you work with Tampa 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 Tampa?
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.
Our back office is mostly manual. Where do you start?
With the process that costs the most when it half-completes. A durable workflow that records every step turns a multi-day, multi-system process into something that survives a restart and produces its own audit trail. Auto Approve is the published version of exactly that.
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
Boston, MA
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville
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
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston
Dallas, TX
Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano