Evil Martians, an extraterrestrial product development consultancy

Evil Martians is a product development consultancy that works with startups and established businesses while also creating open source-based products & services

Tackling your challenges together

Need to build an online product or its MVP, design a better UI, optimize your application, scale the infrastructure, or validate a new idea? Evil Martians’ services are tailored to help you!

Sprints to Solutions
Startups requiring a proof of concept can benefit from our guidance in rapid sprints. We not only validate the scope of development: we can also provide a visualization of the basic User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI)—as well as creating a “live” mockup that can be shared with investors and clients alike; shape MVP scope and roadmap; and discover and resolve application performance bottlenecks.
Product Launch
The Evil Martians team has a proven track record of building and launching successful products. We worked with local startups transforming into unicorns, small teams becoming market leaders, giant businesses releasing profitable spin-offs, and many others. If you’re pivoting or experiencing explosive growth, we are here to help you get the desired results.
Full Cycle Software Development
Beyond the product launch, we act as an engineering partner and deliver software and key business features you can depend upon. We are committed to helping your business grow as we tackle complex technical problems efficiently, ensuring that your technical stack improves and accelerates with you.
Performance Audit and Optimization
Evil Martians will review your project, analyze possible bottlenecks within your code and infrastructure, propose a clear set of recommendations, and bring them to life. We'll prepare your product for the upcoming user surges, and make it reliable, resource-efficient, and scalable.

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We’ve worked with clients who are pivoting or experiencing explosive growth

This includes both early‑stage startups and Fortune 500 companies. You’ll find a story relevant to your project and its needs somewhere within our dozens of case studies.

Teleport
Evil Martians teamed up with Teleport to design and integrate plugins to let engineers approve or deny permission requests via Slack, Jira, Mattermost, PagerDuty, or GitLab.
Backed
by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator
$170M
total funding
We loved how the Martian engineering team worked on Teleport plugins: everything from the way they communicated and approached the project to their code quality, their curiosity, and their striving to figure out the right way to build things—that left a strong impression on me.
Sasha Klizhentas
CTO, Teleport
Lowkey.gg
Lowkey.gg is a gaming startup that helps esports teams to train and study competitors’ strategies. The Martian team brought Lowkey’s app CPU usage from over 30% to less than 5% while recording a Full HD video with 60 FPS.
$8.6M
total funding
Backed
by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
The Evil Martians team was extremely helpful and professional throughout the entire process. Their developers are some of the most technically skilled people that we’ve worked with.
Jesse Zhang
CEO, Lowkey.gg
2U
Martians helped 2U achieve the strategic goal of reorganizing its microservices architecture by safe migration GraphQL API to Apollo Federation with zero downtime and fewer expenses.
$427M
total funding
225K
students
Evil Martians have been instrumental in guiding many of 2U’s Academic-Product teams through a difficult transition to new technology and paradigms as we migrated from a schema-stitched implementation to Apollo’s Federation.
Michael Schechter
Director of Engineering, 2U

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Open source is in the Martian DNA

Our projects are used by builders of major web services and emerging startups. There’s a good chance that you’ve encountered or built an online product that was powered by one of our OSS projects.

94

projects with

134K+

stars and climbing

AnyCable
AnyCable
A way to build build lightning-fast and reliable real-time Ruby on Rails applications that scale fast and don't cost a fortune to run. It helps add real-time features without the need to switch to another platform or language.
3.5X
lower RAM usage
10X
faster response
Ossert
Ossert
An open source SaaS that provides maturity maintenance certification for Ruby libraries.
Ruby Next
Ruby Next
A transpiler and a collection of polyfills for supporting new and upcoming Ruby features in older versions and alternative implementations.

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We constantly contribute diverse content via our blog

We’ve got articles for junior and hardcore developers, case studies for business professionals, and thorough technical deep dives into unexpected terrain. No matter where you’re coming from, you’re certain to gain some insight here, whether it’s more practical, or something that really takes you for a ride.