What we do
Assembla provides tools and services for accelerating software development, with three lines of business:
Tools: Workspaces on Assembla.com, this web site, used by thousands of teams.
Talent: Staffing services that find the best person or team for the job, worldwide.
Knowledge: We run projects ourselves, and we do management consulting to fix stalled product release cycles, streamline product strategy, build startup teams, implement iterative and agile processes, and get products released.
Learn more on the Assembla Consulting site →
Who we are
We are experienced software entrepreneurs, backed up by top development talent. Assembla's principals have designed, built, and released more than 30 commercial software and information services products.
- Andy Singleton, President
- Andy has built more than 20 software and information services products
- Sesha Pratap, Business Development
- Sesha started Centerline in college served as CEO while growing it to a $20M businessProfile
- Peter Hallinan PhD, Consulting, Silicon Valley
- Peter has over twenty years of hands-on experience in software development, the management of new product development, and growth strategy in the hi-tech and life science industries. He received his PhD in Pattern Recognition from Harvard University.
- Jon Stillman PhD, Managing Director
- Jon brings enterprise experience from GE, large-scale startup experience from Divine Interventures, and perspective from his role as a venture partner a High Peaks Venture Partners
- Vitalie Lazu, Technical Lead
- High powered software, build, and server guru
- Stuart Kirsch, Recruiting
- A technology consultant to small business for more than 20 years, Stu has become an expert at the ins and outs of talent recruiting for Assembla's global teams
Assembla Philosophy
Inspired by open source means that we have adopted the best practices from open source development, and applied professional recruiting and management. The result is fast, iterative development with globally distributed teams.
We are also inspired by Web 2.0. This means we release early and release often, with fast reaction times that aspire to be instant. It also means letting users add and manage content and ideas, since they are faster and smarter about it than we are. It means investing in a great product experience, rather than excess sales and marketing. It means making adoption free, fast, and fun.
Low overhead. As entrepreneurs, we want what you want - unlimited scalability with no fixed costs.
Work with the best. Many people in the software business will say that a good developer is 10 times as productive as an average developer, but they are not willing to do the work to find the good developers. We are. We communicate with developers all over the world and engage them in paid, competitive trials to find the ones who are talented, productive and skilled at working in distributed teams.
Distributed Teams
Many of us work in distributed teams - whether it's in a startup with two home offices, an outsourcing relationship, or a big spread-out company. Assembla is figuring out how to do it right. We gather tools and management processes from the open source movement, community strategies from Web 2.0, and the best software talent from around the world. We will help you get results faster, lower your costs or work on better projects, and have fun doing it.