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March 29, 2024
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Unlock the full potential of your business with our Fractional Engineering Teams. Flexible, elite tech talent—exactly when you need it, without the overhead.
We are a small, elite team of software engineers with over 20 years of experience with startups.
We’re more than a service; we’re strategic partners invested in your success, ensuring we continually prove our value.
Whether you’re a high-tech startup or an established company, we offer scalable, customized solutions that fit your unique challenges.
Thought leaders in the tech space, we’re always looking for ways to drive efficiencies and optimize performance for your business.
Our team ensures round-the-clock coverage without the downtime associated with vacations, sick days, or holidays, guaranteeing uninterrupted service.
Our roots are deeply embedded in startup culture and small business dynamics, making us ideally suited to understand and address your specific needs.
We partner with established small companies, startups, and scale-ups.
We fit best with small companies who have less than 50 employees.
Our clients are primarily in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Our first step is an intensive exploration of your entire environment. Our expert engineers quickly become familiar with your tech stack, ensuring a seamless and effective partnership from the start.
We embed ourselves within your team’s communication channels (Slack, Teams, Email) and establish a schedule for regular catch-up sessions. This integration facilitates clear, continuous communication and collaboration.
To ensure alignment and efficiency across the board, we craft comprehensive documentation, flow diagrams, and action plans. This foundational work is key to maintaining clarity and direction for all team members.
Our team closely measures the utilization patterns in your infrastructure to ensure that your systems can scale to meet your customer’s needs. Additionally, we review your resource usage to make sure that you aren’t overpaying for your cloud resources.
We provide 24/7 support and continuous monitoring for all of our customers.
For our clients with engineering teams, we also provide training to your dev teams to make sure that your team is maturing in their knowledge of infrastructure and cloud ops.
CEO / Founder
Chris Reynolds is a seasoned certified DevOps engineer with over two decades of experience. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Surton, Chris is responsible for driving the highest quality standards in the industry by building the right team and keeping them laser-focused on the customer’s objectives. Prior to Surton, he was the founder of BriteCore, an insurance technology startup that sold to Private Equity in 2019.
Chris’s leadership qualities and his ability to drive technological innovation have been recognized with several accolades, including the Missouri Small Business of the Year award in 2012, the Lifetime Service award from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and three-time recognition on the Inc 5000 list.
CTO / Founder
Ben Hayden has been building data-focused cloud architectures for over 16 years. He is a certified AWS Solution Architect and has managed large migrations, greenfield projects as a leader, consultant and engineer.
He has deep experience building SOC 2 compliant insurance-focused data solutions as well as HIPAA compliant platforms. He takes a pragmatic approach when it comes to software design, balancing the right layer of abstraction with producing the highest business value in the shortest amount of time.
Zeera, a VC-funded startup, needed a team of backend engineers and AWS professionals to help them navigate a pivot from B2C to B2B. They were looking for a top-tier team that could keep engineering costs within budget.
When Zeera partnered with us, they chose our Catalyst package. Our team quickly integrated with Zeera’s operations, providing a seamless transition and ensuring uninterrupted service delivery. We help manage the engineering and provide CTO-level consulting to the management team.
The Surton team have been brilliant partners from day one. They jumped in very quickly to manage all of our technical needs and are able to operate both autonomously and in tight coordination with our other business functions.
With very limited handover, the Surton team was able to maintain continuity in all of our engineering processes and also seamlessly deliver customer specific enhancement work on tight timelines.
Paperplanes is a tech-enabled direct mail marketing firm. They needed a flexible and cost-effective AWS expert to ensure the smooth operation of their platform without the overhead of a full-time, in-house tech team.
Paperplanes purchased our Guardian Package, where we monitor their entire AWS Infrastructure 24/7. We do basic upgrades and are available whenever they need consulting.
Surton was an absolute pleasure to deal with. They completely understood what we wanted to achieve, and they delivered a truly fantastic deliverable, bang on time.
The skills needed to do what they do for us is what we would have to hire 1 senior or 2 mid-level developers to achieve.
VCA is 20-year-old software company that had expanded their infrastructure to support client customizations. Their goal was to centralize their codebase while optimizing their Azure infrastructure.
We successfully moved nearly 40 servers from a data center in Texas into Microsoft Azure Cloud and kept everything running smoothly. Afterword, we deployed a strategy to centralize their code using a safe, incremental process to reduce both engineering and hosting costs.
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