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Success is a Journey, and We’ll Take it With You

Successful businesses start with great ideas, and those ideas can spring up wherever passionate, ambitious people meet. We’ve all heard stories about corporations started over pizza-fueled late-night work sessions and launched in garages or attics. That sort of determination and enthusiasm can drive your company’s success, too.

We strive to help you assemble development teams that add just the right touch of vigorous entrepreneurial spirit to your organization. To that end, we don’t just source the best engineering talent for your team – we invest the time and resources needed to make them feel part of your organization, and to support all parties every step of the way.

If you’re just getting started with a project that brings your latest big idea to life, we can help there, too. Our project management support services can assist you with everything from setting up shop to performing business analysis, through to Agile coaching and optimizing your development process. We’re here to help you succeed.

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Our Story

Where we came from

Team4Code traces its origins to Phoundry, a digital design agency based in the Netherlands. Phoundry built and managed its own custom CMS. For nearly 20 years it proved popular with dozens of organizations, including postal systems, international industrial corporations, and news organizations. Working with an established in-house development team, Phoundry expanded its initial vision of the CMS, using it to power web sites and applications, e-commerce solutions, and internet portals. As clients grew and requested new functionality, Phoundry’s team delivered.

Though Phoundry CMS was one of the most powerful and flexible solutions on the Dutch market, open-source alternatives and better-funded enterprise platforms began to chip away at its market share. Eventually, Phoundry was left to support a diminishing core of clients. But the remaining users needed continuity. For example, one e-commerce platform powered by Phoundry CMS did tens of millions of Euros worth of business each year, and saw no reason to abandon a good thing.

Phoundry

A Gregorian knot to untie

Meanwhile, a more pressing issue began to weigh on Phoundry CMS. The platform’s code was based on software code that was approaching the end of its viable life, and upgrading the codebase threatened to become a massive and disruptive undertaking. The Dutch development team did not even dare to start. After postponing the inevitable as long as possible, Phoundry’s CTO left the company, shortly after followed by its veteran development team.

Phoundry’s remaining owner was left to make a crucial decision: whether to retire Phoundry CMS altogether and call it end of life, or to invest the time and resources necessary to upgrade a product that had ceased to attract many new customers. In the short time available there were almost no developers to be found. It was an almost unsolvable problem. He found his answer more than 1,000 miles away.

A difficult knot to untie

Bringing in new talent

Over the course of his career as CEO of a software development company prior to Phoundry, the owner had worked extensively with engineers from all over the world, and had developed a solid professional network of developers.He put out the call for talented programmers and engineers willing to take on a challenge in the Netherlands, He found a new team from Ukraine to join forces and opened an office in Kyiv. Within a couple of weeks the team had begun to work on Phoundry’s old code, giving Phoundry the basis of a new Ukrainian development team, and a new lease on life. Phoundy found a solution to the version problem and at the same time realized a significant saving in operating costs.

Solution

Meet our team

Embracing a New Identity: Team4Code

Six months after the new Phoundry team started, they had upgraded the entire application environment. The new team also took
care of the adjustments in the customer-specific applications. The overall Phoundry environment reached a degree of stability it had never enjoyed before. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian team expanded their expertise beyond Phoundry software, serving an increasing number of customers with diverse technological needs.

In 2020, the Ukrainian team continued their journey as Team4Code, operating from offices in the Netherlands, Ukraine, and Poland.

Today, Team4Code’s focus is to help companies establish mature software teams. We not only take care of recruitment, outstaffing & outsourcing services but also provide assistance in setting up processes, both in the HR and work-related domains, as needed.

Our values

TrustResponsibilityCompetencePersonal & PositiveInclusiveness

Trust

It is important to give confidence and room for the initiative to bring out the best in professionals. We ask that trust of our customers, and we do everything we can to not betray that trust.

The predictability of a project depends to a great extent on the integrity of the people who realise it. That is why we make an effort to be consistent and responsible in our actions, values, methods, measures and principles. We value transparency, truthfulness and accuracy in all our actions. Doing so we strive to create realistic expectations and we are transparent about the process and the outcomes. As a team, we are motivated by personal development and authentic leadership.

Responsibility

If you are part of a good team, you know that your colleagues depend on you. It is a great inspiration and responsibility for our specialists to work together, in a close-knit team, for a common goal. To be able to rely on each other and to be successful together.

Every professional who works in a customer’s team via Team4Code understands and appreciates the trust he has received. We are proud of that and work hard to contribute to our customers ‘business goals’.

Competence

At Team4Code we select specialists who have the knowledge and skills to contribute successfully to our customers’ business.

Just as important as knowledge and experience are the vision of the own functioning within the customer team and the attitude to be successful together.

For us, competence is getting things done. Taking the responsibility, bringing your best to the table in terms of creativity, dedication and perseverance.

Personal & Positive

We see the relationship with our colleagues and our customers as the starting point for our actions. Meaningful work gets its meaning not only through the result it produces for society, but especially through working together on common goals. A positive attitude towards each other and a strong belief in the good intention of all stakeholders is our point of departure.

You need each other to be successful as a team.
Team4Code aims to connect and facilitate developers and customers, to be successful together.

Inclusiveness

Everyone deserves a fair chance in life. It doesn’t matter where engineers come from or what personal characteristics they possess. What is important is their attitude, competences and skills. Regardless of where your cradle was, how rich or poor your parents were, your color, sex or beliefs.

Every position at Team4Code is open to everyone with a professional attitude, the will to grow and take responsibility. Every colleague has the right to fair compensation for his/her work, without distinction being made on characteristics other than competences and attitude.