We travel alongside you on the product development journey as a technological partner—balancing your business priorities, providing down‑to‑earth strategies, and best‑fit technologies.
Evil Martians partnered with a renowned agent support platform to streamline AI-driven development, building a scalable design system and efficient developer workflows. We delivered secure, enterprise-ready infrastructure, from DevContainers to production VoIP integrations.
Evil Martians and StackBlitz: tech partners since 2021. Our engineers helped scale their WebContainers platform from pioneering browser IDE to bolt.new—the AI-powered tool that hit $20M+ ARR in just 2 months and disrupted the industry of vibe coding. We've built core infrastructure powering 3M+ monthly developers, from backend Rails to enterprise features and performance optimization. Together, we're transforming how developers build worldwide.
Evil Martians helped an advanced security orchestration and automation platform, Tines, with the core product, covering UI design, frontend, and backend. Our team designed a pro-oriented interface easy-to-use even for newcomers.
Evil Martians has partnered with Teleport since 2020, engineering enterprise-ready features for their open-source infrastructure access platform. Our engineering and design teams work across the platform – from architecting the plugin ecosystem and deployment strategies to transforming their documentation into a powerful growth driver with Next.js. Combining deep Go expertise with product thinking, we continue as their technical partner driving R&D initiatives as well as building core features that support their growth..
Since 2021, Evil Martians has collaborated with Playbook to build a next-generation cloud platform for creatives that serves 700,000+ users worldwide. Our engineering teams have developed their core platform features – from ML-powered visual search and AI-assisted file management to Figma plugin and third-party integrations. Our relationship deepened when Playbook acquired CanFY, an AI assistant platform we incubated, bringing advanced image recognition and natural language processing capabilities to their creative ecosystem.
NATS by Synadia is an open-source messaging system, a secure connective technology for modern distributed systems at the edge and in the cloud. They reached out to Evil Martians to improve the performance of NATS's Ruby SDK, and we ended up speeding it up by more than three times for high-load cases.
Recraft is shaping the future of AI-driven creativity. Our collaboration introduced a custom Discord bot, streamlining client acquisition and engagement. Plus, our tailored analytics enabled data-driven decisions, allowing for monitoring of the success of this customer acquisition channel.
Aptos is a modern Layer-1 blockchain built for seamless upgrades and real-world performance. We helped expand their ecosystem by creating one of their core web portals, implementing an AI-powered development assistant, and crafting technical content that showcases Aptos’ unique features to blockchain developers.
Ghost Security is a startup working on a security platform for enterprise and web applications that makes it possible to find vulnerabilities and measure the risks of their cloud infrastructures. During their mission to deliver security engineers an insightful, noise-less, and aesthetic UX inside a product that stands out in the oversaturated and effective field of security apps, the team invited Evil Martians to create their MVP’s UI design and to build its frontend together with the core team.
Rootly is a Y Combinator startup developing an incident management platform. The team needed an urgent design makeover for their core marketing assets—and they asked Evil Martians to implement it on the frontend and backend, add new design elements, and systematize the UI components.
In a matter of weeks, Evil Martians delivered a fully functional website with conversion-driven pages tailored specifically around the goals of GMI Cloud, a California-based GPU cloud infrastructure provider.
BetterUp, the leading coaching and professional development platform, enhanced their cutting-edge AI capabilities with Evil Martians’ support. We collaborated to create an intuitive interface with sophisticated React frontend and scalable AWS backend that maintained BetterUp’s commitment to enterprise-grade security. All while pushing the boundaries of AI-powered coaching.
Certora provides advanced security analysis tools for Smart Contracts, including a one-of-its-kind accessible and cost-efficient formal verification tool. Evil Martians helped them build a handy VS Code plugin for analyzing the verification results in the IDE.
Evil Martians partnered with ClickFunnels, a leading sales funnel platform, to stabilize their AnyCable infrastructure and optimize test suite. Our team eliminated flaky tests, migrated end-to-end tests to Ruby, and implemented sanity tests while identifying performance bottlenecks to improve test reliability.
Evil Martians helped Doximity, the leading digital platform for medical professionals, add real-time features to their Rails app by integrating AnyCable.
Lago is an open-source metering and billing system that partnered with Evil Martians to scale their engineering team, keep product development moving fast, and maintain high quality.
For 18 months, Evil Martians partnered with a major gaming platform to build a unified UI infrastructure serving 12.3 million developers and game creators. We laid the foundation for a unified UI library in Luau React for the company and established CI/CD pipeline for continuous delivery, improving developer velocity.
Evil Martians contributed to reducing long-term technical risks in the MVP by rigorously stress-testing core functionality, refining edge-case behavior (such as stdin handling and long-running processes), and enhancing the user experience around code streaming and interaction flows.
Evil Martians provided technical expertise and development support for Steel, an open-source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud. Working within their monorepo architecture, we strengthened their browser infrastructure and added new features for their Steel Browser while maintaining their open-source ethos.
We partnered with a stealth startup in the early stages of product development to design and build their MVP, providing end-to-end support across frontend, design, and product strategy. Over seven months, we led technical execution and helped the founding team launch with confidence freeing them to focus on fundraising and hiring.
Blockscout is the first fully-featured open source blockchain explorer that provides access to data, analytics, and decentralized apps (dApps) from 100+ Ethereum-based chains. Evil Martians designed and built the frontend for new, cutting-edge features that would help the explorer gain traction in the highly competitive blockchain industry.
We helped Wallarm, an API security platform, redesign and optimize their Go-based event processing pipeline that handles critical security data through NATS messaging and ClickHouse storage, and guided their team through architectural improvements and urgent feature implementations.
Fund That Flip is a leader in online lending that specializes in funding rehab and new construction projects. Martians introduced best practices that accelerated the engineering process and reduced test suit execution time by 66%.
Evil Martians worked with Whop, a creator marketplace platform, on resolving critical performance challenges. We implemented data denormalization strategies, developed data seeding solutions with evil-seed, and enhanced their developer experience to support their rapid growth.
Wawa Fertility is a platform helping clinics streamline fertility care through personalized, easy-to-manage solutions. To move faster while maintaining quality, they partner with Martians for senior dev expertise, tech research, and quick, focused delivery. Together, we work in agile sprints to build and ship high-impact features efficiently.
Healthie is an all-in-one SaaS solution for virtual-first healthcare and wellness companies to automate and streamline back-office operations and build longitudinal relationships with their clients. They asked our team to help with the gradual migration of their real-time features from Action Cable to AnyCable Pro and other backend challenges.
Iterative is an open source data and models versioning tool for Machine Learning projects, built by Iterative.ai. Evil Martians were instrumental in refashioning the critical web resources and building UI and frontend for DVC Studio.
As a leading co-living platform, Common designs, creates, and operates all-inclusive homes. Martians were responsible for backend, frontend, and mobile development for the Connect by Common app.
HTTPie is an open-source API testing client. The team called on Evil Martians to create the Web & Desktop version of the application. Though we started by building a complex professional UI design, we also helped add new features on the frontend and backend.
We helped Yetto create the next generation of support tooling, built from the ground up to streamline the work of supporting customers for all the teams involved in this process.
Zipline is a retail communication and task management platform. Martians helped improve the infrastructure, built some key product features, and brought large-scale optimization to boost performance and sped up engineering.
Tegon, the open source AI-first issue tracker, faced the challenge of changing its UI and UX to set the product apart from other issue trackers. Evil Martians took charge of this transformation, successfully redesigning the core experience and bringing forward new ideas for AI-first features to further enhance the issue tracker UX above and beyond. Our contributions helped Tegon launch version 2.0 in just 2.5 months, with well-received results.
Keygen is a fair source software licensing and distribution API that is open sourced and enterprise-grade. This developer-first tool can significantly reduce development time by simplifying access to licenses. Our team built Keygen Relay, an offline-first on-premise CLI server written in Go, to help users with non-cloud infrastructure (e.g., private networks) work effectively with license distribution.
Tesote, a fintech company transforming the way CFOs manage their treasury operations, worked with Evil Martians to develop critical bank integrations enabling the secure connection of over 700 customer bank accounts across 40+ workspaces. Additionally, we established logging and error monitoring for bank sync sessions, which power the Metabase dashboards used daily by the Tesote team.
Photobucket is an image and video hosting service that allows users to upload, store, edit, and share their media online. We helped them launch a new Go-based feature on a tight deadline by embedding a developer into their team. It was great collaborating, sharing best practices, and setting them up for long-term success.
Wave, a brand-new developer tool, is an AI-powered command line terminal based on open web standards. This startup’s team needed a new and stand-out UI design but one that was also newbie-programmer-friendly.
Evil Martians have been cooperating with eBay, a global marketplace leader, since 2014, shipping two official eBay spin-offs—eBaymag and eBay Bonus. Martians are behind all the tech and product development, analytics, design, and SRE in both projects.
As a core technical team behind Fountain’s software, doing backend and frontend development and being responsible for scaling the software, we were happy to see them become an industry leading hiring platform for hourly workers.
Evil Martians have developed a mobile application for Podium (featured in Inc. 500, Forbes, Fast Company), the leading interaction platform for local business. In 2021, Podium Corp.’s valuation doubled to more than $3B at the time of their latest round of fundraising.
Gett is a leading on-demand mobility company in UK, Israel, US, and CIS countries. Evil Martians helped with backend/frontend development and training, which allowed Gett to switch to microservice-oriented architecture faster.
Evil Martians helped the fast-paced food delivery platform improve its backend performance and reliability and speed up new feature development. We contributed to the system design and architecture, backend and frontend, ensuring zero-downtime releases.
We helped Monograph, who builds a back-office tool for architects, migrate the backend to GraphQL, move the frontend part from the monolith to the Next application, and accelerate and create financial reports. We also led some trainings.
Sera Systems, a cloud-based software platform that automates back-office processes for home service businesses, asked for help running real-time features and ensuring no-brainer maintenance: our team migrated their GPS tracker to AnyCable and sped up the AWS ECS-based infrastructure.
Scout is a performance monitoring tool that helps developers quickly identify and resolve performance issues. Evil Martians came on board to help refine their website design and tone of voice, and overhaul their copy to more effectively showcase their product value. We determined the viability of their social media channels and blog, provided a short-term and long-term content strategy, and continue to work providing editorial work and guidance on developing a writing culture within their technical team.
We’re proud that this Martian-built open source project has gained its independence but remains the fastest and most secure image processing tool on the market! To highlight these differentiators, we refreshed their brand identity, redesigned and launched a new website, developed a content strategy, and kicked off copywriting for the imgproxy blog and social channels.
Mayhem brings gamers together in tournaments, leagues, and other real-time community-driven events. Evil Martians resolved performance bottlenecks in the project’s backend, stemming from Mayhem’s active user base’s rapid growth.
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.
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.
Synonym develops, finances and builds commercial-scale biomanufacturing infrastructure for synthetic biology companies that manufacture the next generation of sustainable products like alternative proteins, biomaterials and biopolymers. Our team helped them launch some critical business products, all while delivering them on a tight schedule.
Martians helped to improve the documentation platform for Neuromation, the AI marketplace & development platform that pioneers the use of synthetic data to build more capable computer vision AI.
Evil Martians spent 6 years with one of Groupon's local products in a core tech team role. We supported scaling, implemented new features and offers in record-breaking time, and fought against DDoS attacks under the project’s fairly insane growth.
Akeero is an AWS architecture audit platform. Evil Martians created a professional UI, built the frontend, including a key feature—a visual collaborative real-time editor for architecture's design. The Martians helped the team to release an MVP in just 4 months.
SumIt is a tailored platform specifically designed for family offices. Starting with accounting and financial reporting, Evil Martians built a sophisticated multi-step form wizard for their custom reports builder using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire.
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Irina Nazarova CEO at Evil Martians
Evil Martians is a developer tools consultancy founded in 2006. Creators of PostCSS, imgproxy, and 100+ open source projects with 25 billion downloads.
