About Us

Your Dev Team
Accelerator.

UpTeam is a global software development accelerator. We create and operate centralized / distributed teams for tech startups and corporate innovators.

Our mission: powering your products through launch, growth, and scale as the team becomes an integral part of your company.

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How we got here

We are engineering, product, project management and workforce operations experts (and geeks).

We started UpTeam as a technical consultancy, following years of hands-on experience at leading US and international companies, shipping globally acclaimed products.

Since then, we’ve led and served on lots of teams. We’ve built and shipped a lot of production code for successful (and unsuccessful) technology startups. We’ve seen some company executives and their global development teams thrive, while others failed. Some businesses took off, some sank. We saw that none of them succeeded without a dedicated focus on teamwork.

That was our ‘Aha!’ moment: for distributed software teams and the engineers who join them, real acceleration takes more than urgency and enthusiasm.

At UpTeam, we offer a different kind of accelerator. Our focus is in combining hands-on software expertise, smart engineers passionate about making cool stuff work better, and well-organized technical leadership. We give startups of all sizes the freedom to pursue the product vision that delights their customers and rewards their investors.

Management Team

Careers

Michael Philip
CEO & Co-Founder

Michael has built successful technology startups, and launched acclaimed B2B & B2C products at big Silicon Valley companies. He founded UpTeam to help other executives & entrepreneurs close the gap between product vision and successful software product development.

David Fishman
VP Products & Services

David is a Silicon Valley executive with several decades of experience driving product marketing and product management at companies innovating in IT and cloud infrastructure, analytics, and open source. He has led alliance and demand gen operations at multiple startups and large public companies.

Alex Ulyanov
CTO

A distinguished system architect and hands-on engineering exec, Alex has built and run systems for IoT, AdTec, SaaS and more. Driven by both passion for new technologies and the experience of proving how (and if) they work, he leads by example. He has designed and implemented many solutions and platforms, ranging from start-up MVPs to global enterprises.

Valentin Smirnov
VP Engineering

An experienced technical executive and engineering manager, Valentin left a promising career as a hands-on coder building speech recognition systems to build and lead software development teams for global companies. He is fluent in four languages (Finnish, Russian, French, and English) with formal graduate academic training in 5 more, and plays a mean electric guitar.

Elena Alekseeva
Head of Talent

With many years of experience at top global IT and technology organizations, Elena brings a broad base of critical experiences to her role leading our Talent and Human Capital management organization. In addition, she is in charge of designing and operating UpTeam’s unique Learning and Development program, which blends collaborative training, self-directed learning, certification, mentoring, and coaching. This integrated approach ensures UpTeam engineers can stay ahead of the curve with the skills, knowledge, and expertise their project teams rely on.

UpTeam

Our Mission. Our Values.

To accelerate

SaaS business agility with high-performance software development teams.

To create

Opportunities for talented engineers to work together with top industry experts and join fast-growing global tech companies.

Five things that matter to us

01.

Commitment

We are driven by our clients’ goals. We believe that providing services for clients is about providing high-quality results that drive the clients’ business.

02.

Passion

We are driven by sharing in the passion and curiosity of entrepreneurs. We invest emotion, time, and budget to find better ways to work together as a team.

03.

Excellence

We are here to do great work. We create space in which ideas are clarified, agreed upon, executed and learned from. In this space, we transform our ideas into the excellent results which no one of us could achieve individually.

04.

Open Communication

We value positive and negative feedback based on honesty, integrity, and respect. In all communication, internal or external, we turn feedback into an actionable plan for constant improvement—regardless of role, rank or experience.

05.

Thankfulness

We understand that keeping up in an ever-changing environment and facing ambitious goals is challenging. All along the way, we always remember that each of us is a human being with unique aspirations, feelings, concerns and motivations. We should be thankful every day for the opportunity to work together.

Full-stack Cloud Engineering

DevOps-driven development & delivery

UpTeam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CloudGeometry, a full-stack technical services company. Our specialty practices include compelling app design, data migration/integration, SaaS architecture, DevOps, and smart infrastructure. You get fast, flexible solutions built on ready-to-use technology blueprints, backed by a deep pool of expert resources. CloudGeometry is a designated AWS Advanced Consulting and SaaS Competency Partner.

Let’s Collaborate

Kickstart. Launch.
Grow. Scale.

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Your Dev Team Accelerator.