Alfa Jango

Alfa Jango is a software development studio that builds products for startups. Serving Michigan founders and others for 18 years, it can act as a fractional CTO and development team, taking a company from idea to minimum viable product and beyond, or joining an existing engineering team.

What Alfa Jango offers

• MVP planning — feature scoping, requirements, wireframes, architecture and build estimates.
• Full-stack development — web and mobile apps using React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, Django and Rails.
• DevOps — cloud architecture, auto-scaling, automated deployments and continuous integration.
• Technical due diligence — independent reviews of code, systems, teams and roadmaps.
• Design and branding — user-centred design and iterative branding for startups.
• Investor materials — help with pitch decks, metrics and investor Q&A.

Who it works with

It works mainly with startup founders, especially around Ann Arbor and Detroit, and can take over maintenance of existing applications.

Key facts

• Based in: Michigan
• Track record: 18 years serving founders
• Open source: maintainers of projects including jquery-ujs and jquery-rails
• Background: a partner co-founded CarCode, acquired by Edmunds in 2014