Operatic - Web and App Development Professionals
Your business deserves a great dev team.
Your business isn't cookie-cutter. You need a team that can go beyond cookie‑cutter development.
We are a highly selective team of designers and developers, capable of working with a wide variety of tools.
We're your partner for the more complicated tasks. We pick up where the standard dev shop leaves off.
Iterative, customer-focused design that creates products that are functional, usable, elegant, and most importantly: successful in the market.
A team with broad experience, well-versed in many languages, frameworks, and tools. We build robust software while meeting entrepreneurial budgets.
Expertise deploying analytics tools to understand customers, optimize product and marketing, and achieve rapid growth.
A flexible approach for rapidly evolving products, with tools that give you insights to prioritize and make smart product decisions.
Full Service: We do it all. No need to hire and coordinate separate agencies for design, development, and data/analytics.
Flexible Capacity: Scale your workforce up or down without committing to the high fixed cost of full-time employees.
Well-Rounded: We work with lots of different technologies, so our people are experienced to make the right engineering decisions.
Solid Code: Sensible architecture and managed technical debt—maintainable and extensible for rapid ongoing development.
U.S. + Offshore: Meticulous recruiting of offshore resources to work with our U.S. team, lowering costs without sacrificing quality.
Low Overhead: No trendy methodology or excess management—just practical processes with designers and engineers who understand your business.
E-commerce platform selling kids' shoes, accessories, and more. Operatic built and managed an enhanced and customized Shopify install.
Workout subscriptions for pregnancy and postpartum. Operatic designed and developed the apps, website, and analytics across several platforms.
Online local news publisher covering the northeast US. Operatic developed the website, ad stack, analytics, and custom content management tools.
Native mobile app for tracking golf statistics, sold as an in-app subscription. Operatic designed and developed the brand/logo, the app, analytics, and CRM.
E-commerce subscriptions for brain-friendly baby food. Operatic built the website on WooCommerce and integrated analytics with Segment.
Kitchen appliance that stores and dispenses ingredients for baking. Operatic wrote the embedded software, plus bluetooth SDKs for iOS and Android.
Inspection tools for multi-family building maintenance teams. Operatic designed and developed the brand/logo and the app.
Data and intelligence tools for evaluating doctors. Operatic designed dashboards and visualizations to communicate insights to customers.
Ten Little provides a simple way for parents to buy the best products for their growing children, relying on a combination of personalization and expert curation. The company launched selling shoes, and has since expanded into many other verticals.
Operatic came in to supplement the existing Shopify design and dev team. We built out all of the advanced functionality into Shopify. This included a customer database and API, custom theme and order logic, and personalization / messaging functionality. We also integrated both Shopify and the API with Segment, Klaviyo, and Twilio, to enable personalized customer communication.
Every Mother provides an online subscription workout program for pregnant and postpartum women, and beyond.
Operatic designed and built the complete user experience for the web and mobile apps, starting from brand guidelines. We built the platform on Wordpress and Paid Memberships Pro to preserve existing subscribers from a past iteration of the product. In addition, we built out product analytics and CRM with Mixpanel and Klaviyo to support ongoing outreach and engagement.
Daily Voice is a local news organization, covering the northeast and mid-atlantic United States. The company recapitalized in 2018 and has since grown into one of the most read local news products in the country.
Operatic designed and built a fully custom website and content management system for Daily Voice, allowing its small team of editors to efficiently manage over 100 distinct websites. We managed the website to serve millions of pageviews daily, and a custom email management system to send billions of emails per year. We also built out a complete and optimized programmatic advertising stack.
Pinpoint is a mobile app for iOS and Android that allows golfers to track their rounds and keep important statistics. The app is sold as an in-app subscription.
Operatic was the sole design and development partner for Pinpoint, creating everything from the brand and logo, to the app itself, to the analytics and customer relationship back-end.
Cerebelly is a baby food company founded by a neurosurgeon, focused on ingredients proven to support early childhood brain development. Cerebelly launched e-commerce offerings with both subscriptions and one-off purchases, and has since added a significant retail presence.
Operatic was the sole technology partner in the initial development of Cerebelly's e-commerce platform, and also assisted with user experience design. We worked with WooCommerce to support the variety of custom-subscription, one-off-purchase, and bundling requirements. We also built custom functionality to guide parents to the right products and packages for their child's current stage of brain development.
PantryChic created a unique product for storing, managing, and using ingredients in the kitchen. Its product can be used at home for cooking and baking, or commercially for quickly and precisely dispensing ingredients.
Operatic started from an existing codebase delivered by the factory, which was buggy and incomplete. We built out the complete code for the embedded system, managing the buttons, scroll wheel, motor, scale, display, speaker, and internal memory. We also built a Bluetooth interface into the firmware, and accompanying iOS and Android libraries that allowed developers to integrate the Bluetooth functionality into their apps.
PantryChic launched in partnership with the Chefling app, which can fully control the device from a phone or tablet.
Masonry is a B2B SAAS tool for multi-family property managers. The app allows maintenance teams to coordinate their work and fully manage the inspection and upkeep of properties.
Operatic was the sole design and development partner for Masonry, creating everything from the brand and logo, to the user experience, to the app itself.
SurgeonCheck is a SAAS offering that analyzes healthcare data to provide detailed statistics on the performance of surgeons within healthcare systems and payer networks.
Operatic worked with SurgeonCheck to create designs for its core dashboard for customers accessing its platform. While the platform was implemented in existing business intelligence tools (without the need for custom tech), Operatic was able to bring unique user experience and data design capabilities to the project.
Travis Hardman is the founder and principal at Operatic. He brings expertise in digital strategy, product management, user experience design, digital marketing, and software development.
Travis began his career in design and project management, managing web design and strategy projects for Playboy, Vizio, Nestlé, Cooks Illustrated, and many other well-known brands.
Through his design and project management work, Travis uncovered an affinity for technology, naturally drifting towards the more technically complex projects. He dove into coding, and has worked with many different web technologies and frameworks: Python/Django, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and many others.
The combination of strategy, design, and tech expertise has served Travis well in developing new products and launching new endeavors. He has launched over 15 different digital businesses, from services teams, to venture-backed startups, to acquisitions/turn-arounds.
Ted Yang is a visionary entrepreneur with a track record of founding and leading successful ventures, both for- and non-profit. As the driving force behind numerous companies, Ted's expertise has resulted in several successful exits, and he continues to forge new paths in innovation.
Among his current ventures are: Daily Voice, Highclere Castle Spirits, Playerpulse, Adapt Beauty, and Gather Insurance. Ted played an instrumental role in founding the Stamford Innovation Center, Social Impact Partners and CT's largest COVID-19 relief fund, 4-CT. Appointed by Governor Lamont, Ted serves as a Regent for Higher Education, overseeing the Connecticut State College and Universities System and he previously served on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation.
Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Ted held leadership positions at renowned financial institutions including Citigroup, Tudor, Citadel, and Bridgewater and as CTO at Ultra Capital, Ted helped revolutionize sustainable investments in infrastructure.
Ted received his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Michael DeSutter is the design director for Operatic, specializing in brand strategy, user experience design, and interactive design.
He brings over 20 years of experience, having worked with companies like Nestle, Target, Nike, Neiman Marcus, Discover, Toyota, Marriott, Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, and GM to solve unique design problems.
Michael is a member of the board of directors for Beam Center, an organization dedicated to building communities of making and learning that enliven student curiosity, bridge the opportunity gap, and prepare youth for the way the world works.
When he’s not working, you can often find Michael working at his mixed-media art practice in his Los Angeles studio.
Andrzej Stanek is a full stack developer for Operatic with over 8 years of experience. Andrzej is a pragmatist who prioritizes simplicity and collaboration in his work. He enjoys complex problems and solving the challenges that come with them. He takes pride in delivering products tailored to customers’ needs.
Over the course of his career, Andrzej has completed a wide range of projects, from simple websites to complex ERP products, while leading teams of other developers.
Andrzej has experience working with cross-functional teams, including product owners, project managers, and quality assurance professionals, to deliver complex projects on time.
Andrzej is a lifelong learner. He constantly seeks to improve his skills and knowledge, staying up-to-date with the latest technology.
Denys is a full stack web developer with 4 years of experience in Java and 3 years in Node.js, including Express.js, React.js, TypeORM, and Fastify. He is also proficient in other back-end and devops tools, with experience in Docker, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, and Google Cloud.
Denys excels at developing complex web applications from scratch, as well as inheriting and maintaining existing ones. His approach reflects a strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices. He is experienced in working with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on time and within budget.
Denys is currently completing a master’s degree in technologies for mobile and cloud computing at the Polish Japanese Academy of Computer Science.
As a core personal philosophy, Denys believes that everyone should raise an exception in a child process, sort a binary tree, and build a house-hunting web application.
Alexey Fomin is a Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in web and mobile development, including front-end, back-end, and APIs.
Alexey is passionate about delivering high-quality, high-performance applications using current technologies and solutions. He enjoys solving tough problems and finding the optimal solutions. He is comfortable working with many technologies and has experience working with Python (Django), PHP (Drupal, Zend Framework, Symfony, Codeigniter, Wordpress etc.), and HTML, CSS, JavaScript on the front-end, including various frameworks.
Alexey has worked on several complex projects with high traffic loads and excels in architecting applications and optimizing to deliver the best user experience and performance at scale.
Tomasz Kowalski is a self-taught junior developer, working with Operatic as his first foray into professional software development.
His journey into coding started as a personal interest and hobby, which he nurtured with enthusiasm. His passion for problem-solving ultimately led him to pursue software development as a career path. He has experience with Python and JavaScript, including Angular, Django, and several other frameworks.
Tomasz prides himself on a mindset of continuous learning. He is always experimenting with new technologies and programming languages. He enjoys collaborating with team members to create functional and efficient software. He is excited about the opportunities ahead and looks forward to contributing to the success of future projects.
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