Our philosophy

After a decade developing software and accumulating wisdom, we can highlight some key ideas we believe in:

• We believe that strong knowledge and high skill are key to transform a vision and concept into a deliverable.
• We believe in quality not quantity, very complex software can be build with small efficient teams.
• We believe in knowledge of cross-functional individuals that can perform multiple roles: Business Analysis, Design and Development.
• We believe in using simple but powerful tools that work well when combined to quickly build up larger toolsets.
• We believe in constant task automation of all elements that have an impact in delivery.
• Doing less is more - Our approach follows a minimalist concept.

Technical Expertise

Our expertise spans across methodologies, technologies and software tools.
The following list includes (but not limited to) our core competencies:

We speak

• Rails 2.3 and 3.0 platform
• Ruby MRI, Ruby Enterprise Edition and JRuby
• High performance JavaScript
• Java Enterprise

Approach

• Object Oriented Design
• Behavior Driven Development / Test Driven Development
• Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
• Custom Framework Extension and Development
• Cloud deployment (EC2, S3)
• Deployment with Passenger, Nginx and Apache
• Git, SVN

Non Relational Data storage

• Cassandra
• CouchDB

Traditional Relational Data storage

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Oracle
• DB2

Experienced

We bringing over a decade of experience with clients across different industries: Start ups, Financial, Telecommunications, Commercial Software Products, Professional Services and Government.

Our projects have encompassed a wide range of development efforts, from one development effort to multiple teams, across organizations and distributed across the globe.

We have assisted clients at many of the different phases during a project, from "green field" development to more mature "maintenance only" projects.

About Solutionwise

We are a boutique consulting and development services firm.
Located in Ottawa Ontario, we have been serving clients in the US and Canadian markets since 2003.
Solutionwise Consulting, Inc. was founded and is owned by Sergio Ontiveros.