AI-accelerated software development for startups and enterprises.

Who are we?

Thought Driven Development is a software development company based in New York.

Our mission is to deliver transformative solutions to our clients that catalyze unforeseen growth.

For your sake and ours we are dead serious about delivering results to our clients' customers and only accede to challenges we feel we can affect positively.

What do we do?

We are a company of thoughtful software developers, designers, thinkers, writers, tinkerers and creators based in the western hemisphere.

We chose the name TDD as a subtle way of poking fun at the idea, too prevalent amongst engineers, that a rote set of "practices" can create good results.

In fact, the only recipe for good software is good thinking.

Selected clients

CASE STUDY

American Express

product process technical strategy

We worked with American Express as technical strategists, applying our knowledge of agile and XP methodologies to improve their internal working processes.

Our work involved cross-functional collaboration with business, product and engineering teams to develop new and enhance existing methods for advancing their automation objectives.

CASE STUDY

2k games

rails react typescript terraform aws gdpr

We built multiple high performance digital products for 2k games, using Rails, React, Typescript and IAC scripting for deployment to AWS via Terraform with Helm.

Our work involved both consumer-facing and internal tools, JWT-based authorization, third-party content management integration, localization and GDPR compliance.

CASE STUDY

University of Chicago

elixir go microservices react typescript

We worked with students and faculty on a criminal justice reform initiative led by professor Steven Levitt, co-author of "Freakonomics".

Our team designed, architected built and deployed a microservices-based web application in Elixir and Go involving concurrent data processing at-scale and sophisticated real-time geo-spatial analysis.

CASE STUDY

IBM

react typescript mysql dev-ops

We worked with the legendary technology brand from 2020-2024 on a series of initiatives. Our work involved:

  • Technical leadership
  • Development in React/Typescript
  • MySQL data querying, analysis and migration
  • Dev-ops and infrastructure management
  • Cache strategy and performance optimization
CASE STUDY

ConsenSys

react typescript ux design

We worked with Rhombus, a blockchain-based oracle project on various initiatives, including:

  • Homepage redesign and development
  • Public documentation design and development
  • Blog design and development
  • Deck concept and design
CASE STUDY

Mack Weldon

rails shopify vue.js ux design

We assumed technical leadership for the development team in 2018 and oversaw their transition to Shopify.

As one of Shopify's first enterprise clients, they faced unique challenges which required a subtle understanding of the platform and it's nuances.

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CASE STUDY

Vital City

rails react typescript ux design

Working with Design For Progress, we architected, developed and deployed the software and workflows that allowed them to launch a new digital publication, Vital City, focused on criminal justice reform in New York City.

We also worked with them to develop a series of interactive digital art-pieces that teaches people about the history of gun violence in New York.