Member Since April 2019
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About
I'm a former Wall Street, stock trader turned entrepreneur. I've started a number of online businesses which I currently spend my time on today. After leaving Wall St. in 2007, I started Cutcaster, an online photography marketplace for creatives to license visual content. In 2010, I co-founded a full-service digital software agency, focusing on web design and software development called Spiral Scout with a team of over 70 engineers. We partner with clients to build their web or mobile businesses. In this capacity, I've worked on numerous design and development projects, helped many clients launch successful mobile apps and websites and learned the most effective ways to scale a business. My experience helps online businesses looking to move online, grow quickly and most cost-effectively. - 13 Years Project Management for Onshore projects with multi-location Offshore resources. - 13 Years building, training and managing offshore teams. - 13 Years Business Analyst experience with Onshore projects working with Offshore resources. - 13 Years owning, managing and growing an offshore digital agency in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and the Philippines. - 9 Years User Experience Design and Managing UX. Specialties: I like helping others, listening, tinkering with new ideas, building new businesses and hitting a squash ball.
John Griffin
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If you’re not technical yourself, it can be hard to tell when you've found a reliable software developer or a team worth contracting.
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Spiral Scout
Company bio
When a company needs to create software that adds value to their business and helps them grow, they call on Spiral Scout to build them an expert team of developers and designers who can make that happen. A custom development team for one-of-a-kind software solutions. Over the past 9 years, we have collaborated with a wide range of clients, from back-of-the-napkin startups to Fortune 100 companies. Through every partnership, we prioritize first-class client service, focusing on communication, reliability, and transparency as strongly as we do speed and innovation. Our technical expertise includes PHP, Golang, Java, Python, Node.js, and Javascript (React, Angular, Backbone, and Typescript). And our software development services run the gamut, from responsive web design to progressive web apps or hybrid apps (using React Native, Ionic, or Flutter), native mobile work (iOS and Android platforms), and customizing integrations with different e-commerce platforms (Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce) or ERP platforms (i.e., Salesforce, NetSuite). We strive to build smart, scalable, user-friendly software products under budget and on time. Whether we take on your entire project ourselves or serve as an extension of your technical team, we have the flexibility and experience to fit your needs. Spiral Scout is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Minsk, Belarus and Lviv, Ukraine.