A Ruby on Rails upgrade with no interruptions
Gusto needed to upgrade from a legacy version of Rails, but they couldn't pull their experts away from delivering critical features and shipping new products.
Test Double stepped in to lead a smooth rollout of Rails upgrades at one of the largest Rails codebases in the world — without interrupting day-to-day development or operations of Gusto's engineering team.
Rolled out upgrade on time & under budget
Fixed 1,700 test failures from initial upgrade
Incremental upgrades saved both time & money
Untangle legacy code & modernize tech stack in tandem
Strategic prioritization drives 500% product release boost
Product teams at a global retail company were working at an unsustainable pace, yet still missing deadlines and KPIs.
After engaging our product management consultants, highly focused product teams were able to ramp up product releases from once a quarter to at least 2x a month.
Ramp up product releases from 1x per quarter to at least 2x a month
Successful launch of two new technical products
Clear strategy, vision, and measurements for shared accountability
Product transformation for focus and portfolio strategy alignment
$1.1 million increase in sales through data-led strategies
A popular U.S.-based magazine was not seeing the expected return on its investments and had fears of an incoming recession.
Our product management consultants implemented a culture of data-led decision making and optimized e-commerce pages — leading to millions of dollars saved or generated in e-commerce.
Found e-commerce checkout issue causing lost revenue up to $7 million
Increase sales by up to $1.1 million annually with upsells and reviews
Halt project—saving estimated $186,000 in yearly losses
Powering complex solutions: from prototype to functional
CPower leadership was staffing up an engineering team, but had an urgent and high-priority need to develop a real-time simulation system. They turned to Test Double to deliver functionality on a critical prototype, advancing from prototypes to fully functioning simulations built on Elixir.
Simulation software development with time-dependent behavior & reproducible randomness
Architectural decision records for lasting impact on maintainable code
Onboard new engineering team & get them up to speed quickly
Launching a startup's new product in record time
A fast-paced startup dedicated to improving medication access was falling short of revenue and profitability benchmarks.
Through Test Double-led product coaching, the startup created clarity on an aligned strategic vision and its decision-making framework — and successfully launched a new product in record time.
Clarity for aligned strategic vision and decision-making framework.
Successfully launch new product in record time
Pare down 20 major potential initiatives into three focus areas
Workshops identify innovative product with $2 million in top-line revenue potential
Efficient data automation for 940+ school districts
Clever, a platform powering digital learning for K12 schools, had two mission critical projects to complete on tight deadlines: automating processes to securely move school district data and building out a self-service tool to provision users into other identity providers.
Test Double consultants hit both aggressive deadlines, leaving the team with well-tested code easily understood.
Automatic rostering requests from 940+ districts & 12.6M daily API requests
Identify gaps in architecture & tooling to improve immediate performance
Meet aggressive deadlines with well-tested, secure & maintainable code
Retooling for a robust, modern infrastructure
Cars.com needed to modernize its systems and development processes to support its next generation of products, requiring a transition to a cloud infrastructure and the adoption of new methodologies.
Our software consultants jumped in to lead the legacy rewrite and, as the team grew, worked side-by-side with developers to help them onboard.
Unite as full-stack development team around new technology
Ask hard questions to clarify complexity
Pressure test edge cases to avoid pitfalls
Coach team on remote work best practices
Streamlined tech recruitment operations in 2 weeks
m2e hired an internal recruiter who ended up being a very poor fit for the company. They desperately needed to hire a recruiter, but were not willing to make another mishire.
Our recruitment team streamlined recruitment operations within 2 weeks and hired a right-fit talent manager in under 2 months.
Recruitment Operations streamlined within 2 weeks
5 top candidates, 1 offer made & accepted
Right-fit Talent Manager hired in under 2 months
In first month TalentManager brings multiple candidates to offer stage
Scaling a distributed energy management system
Enbala, a virtual power plant and distributed energy resource management platform, needed help scaling a distributed, well-tested, fault-tolerant umbrella application, so they could process gigabytes of data per second.
Our consultants solved complex technical challenges and scale with more efficient systems and reduced rework.
Achieve massive scale & successful acquisition by industry leader
More efficient systems for reduced rework & lower overhead
Intentional planning & improved workflows for increased predictability
Improve quality of life with culture of team growth & engineering excellence
Scaling a platform for maintainability
Mode came to Test Double in need of a more flexible and maintainable infrastructure, especially when it came to managing deployments.
Our DevOps consultants constructed a series of infrastructure components that could be combined to meet each team’s unique need — allowing dev teams to quickly and easily deliver in a consistent way.
Support 5+ development teams deploying 15+ services
Dozens of infrastructure modules allow teams to choose right set of tools
Enable reliable, repeatable processes for daily deployments across production services
Dramatically increase throughput & minimize reliance on single infrastructure team
Turbocharging data and data visualization for cancer support
Like many non-profits, Pink Ribbon Girls (PRG) spent a lot of time manually compiling and segmenting data for program operations and to identify impact numbers for grant requests, annual reports, and more.
These were still manual, time-consuming, or both.
Our consultants set up staff with usable insights in real-time and enhanced the data with more detailed insights and visualizations.
Immediate data segmentation to increase efficiency
Real-time insights to increase impact
Infrastructure stability for worry free tech
Enhanced visualizations for data-driven decision making
Speeding up app build and page load times
Bridgecare, a childcare data management platform, was struggling with slow build times and sluggish page load times. One of our JavaScript experts quickly identified the root cause of their performance issues and resolved them through configuration corrections.
Immediate identification and resolution of root cause
Tech leader free to concentrate on high-priority projects
Business scaled to address urgent, unmet childcare needs
Simplifying backend tasks with user-friendly solution
Curbside Concerts is a nonprofit that started during the pandemic with a simple Google Form. As demand grew quickly, they needed help developing an easy-to-use public-facing interface and reducing the manual burden on the back-end.
Our consultants delivered a fully-realized website and scheduling tools in just one month.
free concerts
Provide joy to more than 750 seniors
Paid engagements for 50+ local musicians over 7 months
Enabled go to market in half the time with scalable app
Despite a significant investment with a previous vendor, the AdaMarie team was working long hours and was still an estimated 6 months out from its GA release.
Our developers and DevOps experts quickly stabilized their technical platform and go-to-market strategy — in half the time and for a fraction of the cost.
Condense General Availability release time in half from 6 to 3 months
Improve infrastructure to enable regular, safe releases of new functionality
Identify abuse vector & security referral, implement infrastructure cost monitoring
Enable engineering leadership to focus on strategic tech future
Onboard 3 new engineers, who shipped code within 48 hours
Streamlining AWS infrastructure for 25% cost savings
Simplifying AWS infrastructure helps unlock savings on both time and money. Why pay for complexity you don't need that will only make things harder to manage?
The technology team behind Treehouse wanted an audit of their platform code base and cloud infrastructure, with goals to reduce complexity and cut monthly expenses.
Learn how our software consultant helped reduce AWS costs by 25%, streamline infrastructure, and improve security.
25% reduction in AWS cost and plan to increase savings to 40%
Document data pipeline for possible cost reduction of $50 - 100k per year
Reduce infrastructure from ~40 servers to 3 servers + serverless ECS cluster
Remove or upgrade dependencies on end-of-life projects to reduce business risk