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Bringing enterprise engineering expertise to help scale a booming startup.
Product Strategy, Engineering
In-Depth Look at Our Projects
Featured Work
See how we've helped big brands and bold disruptors take products from idea to impact.
Kamana
How DockYard doubled Kamana’s user base and annual recurring revenue.
Product Design, Engineering
Netflix Scheduling
Creating detailed schedules to keep teams and budgets on track.
Product Design, Engineering
Intellispark Pulse
Helping schools better understand communities through powerful data visualizations.
Product Design, Engineering
NAIS
Helping independent schools recruit prospective students.
Product Design, Product Strategy, Engineering
Netflix Distribution
Delivering documents to the right people — quickly and securely.
Product Design, Engineering
Netflix Scripts
Digitizing and organizing detailed written content for instant access.
Product Design, Engineering
Netflix Calendar
A comprehensive view of timelines across all project phases.
Product Design, Engineering
Work Snapshots
Society of Grownups
Society of Grownups (SOG) approached DockYard to improve code in its existing Ember.js application. The engagement grew to a rebuild of the Ember.js application as well as of the Node.js backed with Elixir and Phoenix. DockYard managed the entire project, working in an integrated fashion with SOG engineers.
Engineering
Netflix
DockYard strategy, user experience, design, engineering, and project management have worked with the Netflix Production Operations team since 2016. We are partnering to build web apps that transform how Netflix Originals get produced.
Product Strategy, Product Design, Engineering
Participatory Politics Foundation
DockYard led digital strategy, experience design, and development for a responsive web application for concerned citizens to view political histories and ask questions to city and state elected officials surrounding current issues.
Product Strategy, Product Design, Engineering
Workers’ Voice
DockYard led digital product development for a platform to help organizers improve engagement from activists. Our strategy, user experience, design, and development enabled us to design a digital tool that has transformed the way the client interacts and communicates with activists.
Product Strategy, Product Design, Engineering
Cars.com
The eCommerce site needed to reduce operating costs while creating a richer customer experience. DockYard helped the automotive retailer replace more than 250 microservices running on NodeJS with a single Elixir umbrella codebase, replacing the system with a more powerful one that will enable better functionality.
Engineering
Constant Contact
DockYard partnered with a large team of client strategists, usability experts, designers, and developers. Working with its existing Ruby on Rails application, we contributed to internal Ruby libraries, and performed application optimizations, resolving software errors and enhancing feature development.
Engineering
Harvard University
Harvard’s Center for European Studies hired DockYard to refresh its website’s user experience, branding, and design, while preparing for future scalability. We redesigned the homepage to help with navigation and designed a calendar featuring a modern interactive experience highlighting key events.
Product Design
The RealReal
This global luxury retailer leveraged DockYard’s engineering consulting to streamline its architecture, enabling a more sophisticated shopping experience. The work allowed the eCommerce business to improve in other ways — from a better mobile experience to advanced customer service to smarter payment processing.
Engineering
Openbay
Openbay approached DockYard to help build its MVP web application. We led digital product development and branding for the marketplace that efficiently connects vehicle service providers with customers in need of firms they can trust.
Engineering
MBTA
DockYard designed an advanced digital service for notifications about train service disruptions, and created a secure data system to track trains. We also developed a new version of the MBTA’s API in Elixir, including improving the performance of the Phoenix application and creating administrative tools for the API.
Engineering
Drift
DockYard worked with digital marketing and sales platform, Drift, to diagnose and fix system performance issues using Elixir and Phoenix development. This provided a financial boost, allowing the client to support more users on less hardware, leading to a faster and more reliable user experience.
Engineering
Mariana Tek
DockYard led digital product development for a cross-platform, fitness point of sale, administration, and reporting application. Our digital strategy, user research, design, and unique methodology enabled an innovative digital solution that brought benefits to both Mariana Tek and customers.
Product Strategy, Product Design, Engineering
Nash
The client needed a scalable, secure system to execute cryptocurrency trades. DockYard created a virtual trading floor web application, built on a trade-matching engine that uses the concept of event sourcing, distributing well-known messages via Phoenix PubSub to workers and marketplaces involved in trading.
Engineering
Digilant
Using results from heuristics analysis and user research, our team redesigned Digilant’s real-time ad buying and campaign tool. This enabled Digilant to better align efforts with its sales and marketing strategy, modernize digital marketing, and significantly improve targeting.
Product Design
Tapology
Tapology is a martial arts network that connects fans globally. The company hired DockYard to scale existing Rails infrastructure and update its technology stack, resulting in a host of benefits to the organization and to end users of the digital tool.
Engineering
Scratch Wireless
DockYard designed a consumer-facing website for marketing Scratch Wireless’ mobile phones and services. The digital product development process offered Scratch the opportunity to enhance the buying experience for customers shopping for their first mobile devices.
Product Design
Decisiv
Decisiv engaged us for staff augmentation as the client’s internal team was breaking down its Ruby on Rails “monolith” into Elixir services. DockYard provided remote pair programming with the team, helping build out new services in Elixir, while offering development best practices.
Engineering
Life Image
Life Image sought a robust web application to empower patients to take control of their breast health. DockYard developed a digital engagement platform offering secure patient data and medical imaging storage through an accessible interface and seamless web experience.
Engineering
Shyft
DockYard led design of the client’s APIs and provided front-end development for a real world, evidence-based digital product to enhance user interactions with clinical research. The successful tool was part of the firm’s recent acquisition by Medidata.
Engineering
Sparta Science
Sparta Science needed a marketing website in Elixir. Our team developed spartascience.com based on detailed third-party designs. This freed up the medical software firm’s team to focus on long-term digital product roadmaps, and how to enhance the website experience.
Engineering
The Outline
DockYard helped build the core infrastructure of The Outline’s news platform with Elixir and Phoenix. The digital tool included sophisticated collaborative editing, enabling the client to easily interact during the writing process, and access live previews of how stories would appear.
Engineering
POA
POA wanted to catalog data stored on a blockchain and allow it to be viewable by anyone in the marketplace. DockYard created a secure architecture that made cataloging fast, and built an API that exposes data to other developers. Afterwards, cataloging data time dropped from six days to six hours.
Engineering
Spyce Food
An innovative food manufacturer and restaurateur needed to streamline its Elixir-based architecture. DockYard provided expertise to more efficiently deploy code for their cloud software applications, which improves data management, enables monitoring of operations in real time, and allows easy rollout of updates.
Engineering
