About Us

What sets us apart from the rest.

Client Education

Our clients are our business, and we strive to keep your best interests at the forefront. We put an emphasis on client education throughout our process, so you can grow to be your own advocate and make informed decisions.

Tech Foundry takes security and protection of confidential information very seriously, and has multiple security controls in place to that end, guided by the requirements of the SOC-2 security framework. 

We are both knowledgeable and mindful of the nuances concerning confidential information and AI usage in our work.

We value a well-planned, yet agile, approach to product development. This allows us to balance evolving requirements with long-term goals, leaving you with a solution that can be expanded in the years to come.

 

We believe software can only be as useful as it is usable. 

We focus heavily on usability, guided by the principles of the Nielsen-Norman Group, and informed by the science of human-computer interaction and how our eyes and brain process information. 

We are experts in our field. Our key leaders each posses over a decade in the industry; relevant university and advanced degrees honing their craft; and work experience spanning the tech scenes of both the US and Europe, from enterprise organizations to “two-pizza team” startups. 

Our team is driven by a passion for turning ideas and problems into useful tech products and business solutions.

We look forward to applying that passion to your challenges. 

Our teams leverage artificial intelligence in the contexts and ways appropriate to increase efficiency, but realize they are not a replacement of the actual intelligence, problem solving, and domain expertise brought by our team. We balance each to leverage the best of both.  

In combination with client education, we are experts at translating highly technical concepts into digestible plain english. Our team works to find and use analogies familiar to our clients’ knowledge bases, so they can grasp key concepts required to make technical decisions with confidence, understanding any important tradeoffs or impacts on the project outcome that their choices may have, without needing become an engineer. 

We do not farm out implementations to nearshore or offshore teams to increase our margins at the expense of your code and implementation quality.

All engineers implementing your software are from the United States, bringing both experience and native fluency in english. 

Foresight

We value a well-planned, yet agile, approach to product development. This allows us to balance evolving requirements with long-term goals, leaving you with a solution that can be expanded in the years to come.

 

Usability

We believe software can only be as useful as it is usable. 

We focus heavily on usability, guided by the principles of the Nielsen-Norman Group, and informed by the science of human-computer interaction and how our eyes and brain process information. 

Expertise

We are experts in our field. Our key leaders each posses over a decade in the industry; relevant university and advanced degrees honing their craft; and work experience spanning the tech scenes of both the US and Europe, from enterprise organizations to “two-pizza team” startups. 

Passion

Our team is driven by a passion for turning ideas and problems into useful tech products and business solutions.

We look forward to applying that passion to your challenges. 

AI2: Artificial & Actual Intelligence

Our teams leverage artificial intelligence in the contexts and ways appropriate to increase efficiency, but realize they are not a replacement of the actual intelligence, problem solving, and domain expertise brought by our team. We balance each to leverage the best of both.  

On Shore

We do not farm out implementations to nearshore or offshore teams to increase our margins at the expense of your code and implementation quality.

All engineers implementing your software are from the United States, bringing both experience and native fluency in english. 

The expertise

Meet our Team Leads


Elizabeth Kukla
Product & Engineering

Elizabeth is a full-stack engineer and product manager. She took both her BS in Computer Science and her Masters in Systems & Information Engineering from UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. She started her career in Düsseldorf, Germany at trivago GmbH where she worked as both a backend engineer and as an associate product manager. She returned to the US with a software firm where she spent 4 years as a full-stack engineer, systems architect, and product owner before opening Tech Foundry. In her spare time, she enjoys running and training her ATD certified therapy dog, Dieter.


Julia Roach
Branding & Design

Julia is a British Visual Designer based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has worked as a creative for branding, communication, digital design, UI Design, and fashion for clients ranging from small startups to some of the world’s largest brands. Elizabeth & Julia first met working together at trivago GmbH and have worked together on multiple projects since. Julia works with Tech Foundry to guide new products through brand definition and UI Design, and of course was instrumental in Tech Foundry's branding and design as well.


Dieter
Smiles & Joy

Dieter takes joy in supplying smiles and joy as an Alliance of Therapy Dogs (ATD) certified therapy dog. He has AKC titles in hunting, show, good citizenship, and therapy dog work. Dieter is the official office greeter on behalf of Tech Foundry.

Elizabeth

Product & Engineering
Julia Roach

Julia

Branding & Design

Dieter

Simles & Joy

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