Webapp, data, and security consulting for startups and SMBs

Sophist Software Consulting

Professionally delivered solutions
for all your technical needs

What We Do

Sophist Software Consulting provides tailored solutions for any client’s needs. We offer a variety of services and aim to be a one-stop-shop for any SMBs technical needs. Whether you’re looking to allocate extra developer hours towards a new product initiative, designing a roadmap for a digital, cloud, or data transformation, hardening up your security strategy for compliance, or just create a customer friendly website, we have you covered.

We specialize not just in implementation but also internal team training and documentation. We want to make sure your org is fully content with the new projects before we consider our job done.

Our services allow you to leverage over a decade of tech leadership and experience, and a variety of specialties of developers without needing to commit to the overhead of multiple high-level developer salaries.

The Team

Matt Almeida

Matt has a long career across the domains of webapp development, data, infrastructure, security, and leadership.
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This experience has ranged from helping early start-ups find product-market fit, scaling a team with financial constraints, successfully navigating compliance certifications, and receiving early funding rounds. It has also involved dealing with massive consumer web traffic with resilient and highly-available architecture at large retail companies and utilizing airtight data security strategies with the most sensitive banking and investment customer PII data sets.

Sam McLain-Jespersen

Sam is a product-focused software engineer with years of professional fullstack experience building modern AI-powered web apps.

Brian Harvey

Brian is a software engineer and technical architect with years of experience on both product and engineering teams, specializing in zero to one product launch, secure modern web development, and accessibility compliance.

17+ Years Back-End Experience

Python
Typescript
Java
REST API
GraphQL

8+ Years Front-End Experience

React
React Native
NextJS

17+ Years Devops Experience

AWS
GCP
Terraform
Docker
Redis
Airflow

14+ Years Data Engineering Experience

Postgres
DynamoDB
MongoDB
IndexDB
ElasticSearch
Kafka

17+ Years Architecture Experience

Project planning
Product management
Domain Driven Design
Distributed Microservices
Data Warehouse / Data Lake / Data Mesh
Design & Feature Documentation
Software Developer LifeCycle (SDLC) and Change Management policy creation
Security & compliance planning and review

7+ Years Leadership Experience

Dev team recruiting and management
Product management
Executive consultation & roadmapping
Team Strategy and Organizational Policy building

2+ Years LLM & Generative AI Experience

Matt's depth of technical knowledge and skill is immense, but he doesn't keep that locked up in a box to himself: he humbly shares all he knows as a great mentor to the engineering teams. He rolls up his sleeves and digs into the tough technical challenges with whoever needs it. He is a natural leader, and people gladly follow his lead because he does it all with humility and confidence.”

Brian is an incredibly dedicated engineer who always goes the extra mile in every aspect of his work. From his attention towards scalability, web accessibility, and security on a small team where things of that sort can be overlooked, to his insistence on establishing and maintaining best practices, Brian has on countless occasions saved our team countless hours of technical debt by measuring twice and cutting once. A razor sharp conductor of clean code indeed, on top of being a kind, wonderful human being always willing to help out a member of his team.

Sam may be a real, live actual wizard. The amount he gets done in a short amount of time must take some sort of magic incantation. Sam is laser-focused in his work. So often what he calls "scope creep" equates to him being incredibly thorough and thoughtful. He goes above and beyond. Sam is highly-skilled, humorous, a team-player and sharp as an ax.

Sam is a brilliant engineer and a super great person to have on your team. Always keeping the big picture in mind, Sam is incredibly thoughtful and diligent in his work, as well as creative; possessing a knack for design and aesthetics that has positively impacted user experience on countless occasions. Always quick to jump on a feature that has question marks all over it and crack right in, Sam leads by example by meeting what needs to be done head on instead of waiting for someone else to jump in. It's been nothing but a pleasure working with Sam this past year.

Brian continuously volunteers for some of the greatest technical challenges we are facing as a team. Brian dives in head first, and surfaces with meticulously crafted, well-documented work that is ready for production. He always brings a unique perspective that highly benefits the team around him. So often Brian asks the questions that were missed, offers up on-point approaches to product, digs into documentation and finds answers we need to become unblocked, and so on. He just does SO MUCH.

Contact

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