After spending Summer 2019 as an intern in the Providence office, Simon joins the team as a full-time software developer. A technological craftsman, he has been interested in the field from a young age and the passion has only grown stronger over time. Read on to learn more about Simon and how he’s put his passion into action.

Meet our newest Mojo - Simon

Simon Says, Welcome Back

We are thrilled to introduce you to our five Mojo interns who will be joining our team this Summer. Coming from a variety of backgrounds and schools, we encourage you to get to know them a bit through this blog post.

Welcome Summer 2020 Interns!

So you're new to the developer life. This can be an intimidating time, even for the most skilled and hard-working people. Starting a new career can be overwhelming at first, but you are not alone, and your anxiety will pass shortly. To help with this transition, we have put together a few pieces of advice that will come in handy when you begin this journey.

A Starting Point for New Developers

Accessible digital content can be used by the widest possible audience, including folks living with a disability.

Digital Accessibility: Essential for some, useful for all

Tatyana joins MojoTech as a Product Manager in the Providence office. Having worked in a variety of careers, she brings her creativity and technical know-how to MojoTech.

Meet our newest Mojo - Tatyana

мы приветствуем Татьяну в командy

Every Year Advent of Code releases a holiday themed series of programming puzzles, unlocked in small bundles from December 1st through 25th. While I've been aware of the challenge in the past, this was my first year digging in to the puzzles in earnest.

Advent of Code 2019, The Intcode Problems

After working at a cryptocurrency startup and spending a year working in the theater, Zach returns to his MojoTech roots.

Meet our newest Mojo - Zach

Meet Zach - Our Newest, But Not So New, Software Developer

After working across a variety of industries, Aaron was looking for new challenges and the opportunity to learn new tools and technologies.

Meet our newest Mojo - Aaron

Meet Aaron, Our Newest Developer

We welcome back Mariana as a full-time Mojo following her Summer internship in our Providence office in 2019.

Meet our newest Mojo - Mariana

From Intern to Full-time Mojo - Meet Mariana

Being featured on Builtin Colorado’s 2020 list of the Best Small Companies to Work in Colorado is a rewarding way to kick off the new year. What do we think makes us one of the best companies to work for? Well let me tell ya...

Best Places to Work 2020

If there’s any industry ripe for digital transformation, it’s the oil and gas industry. And yet when you look at companies that attempted, progress is slow and inconsistent.

7 Digital Transformation Challenges for Oil and Gas Companies

Insurance is a very traditional industry; almost as old as banking. And yet banking has far outpaced its financial sibling in terms of digital transformation and adoption.

7 Digital Transformation Trends Overtaking the Insurance Sector

See the exciting opportunities that await as we explore our favorite digital transformation opportunities for finanical services.

11 Digital Transformation Opportunities for Financial Services

Having worked in companies of all sizes and as a freelancer, Jeremy Brody comes to MojoTech ready for his next challenge.

Meet our newest Mojo - Jeremy

Jeremy Joins the Team

MojoTech has taken over ownership of the Elixir Torch open source software project and released version 2.0 to the public.

Carrying the Torch

Conrad is passionate about uncovering and resolving user pain. He has experience in both Digital Advertising and Insurance Technology. Conrad loves taking nebulous ideas and turning them into concrete products that solve real problems. He has a personal and professional interest in Design. Outside of the office, Conrad loves cooking, skiing, mountain biking, and travel. He is a fluent Spanish speaker who has traveled much of Latin America.

Meet Conrad, Our New Product Manager

Today I’m officially announcing the launch of Prismatest, a Javascript library to decouple your front-end tests from the view layer details, promoting tests that are easier to check for correctness and easier to maintain.

Introducting Prismatest Testing Library

Introducing Prismatest Testing Library

MojoTech was founded on one simple principle – to create a place where people can do their best work. We’re excited to have these three talented engineers on board and we look forward to the contributions they will make to our team.

Meet our newest Mojos - Jennifer, Rupak and Eric

Meet our newest Mojos - Jennifer, Rupak, and Eric

Learn how to turn your Google Sheets data into a powerful data visualization tool with little to no coding knowledge.

How to Use Google Sheets as a Stunning Data Visualization Tool

There once was a professor who ran a school for gifted youngsters. He had the unfortunate problem that his teachers would frequently disappear...

Contexts with Some Light Phoenix

What makes for a good software project, from an engineering standpoint? There are projects that are a joy to work on, and others that are a drag...

The Practices and Tools that make for a Good Project

Practices and Tools that Make for a Good Project

This November marks the 5th anniversary of MojoTech in Boulder. We recently celebrated the grand opening of our newest office space on 15th street with an open house and ribbon cutting during Boulder Startup Week. A lot has happened in the last 5 years.

Celebrating 5 years of MojoTech in Boulder

#GrowMojo

Since one of its earliest releases, I have been a rabid fan of an indie computer game called Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP).

Opening Day

Implementing Digital Transformation In Your Business. It’s one thing to recognize the importance of DT, but making it a reality in your business is a different animal altogether.

10 Critical Steps To Accelerate Digital Transformation In Your Company

A product manager's role is to release great digital products. See why I choose to focus on product over process in an effort to build better software.

Product Over Process: Do Your Own Thing and Build Better Software

See how you can create a simple in-memory cache to reduce network requests and boost performance.

How To Build A Simple In-Memory Cache in Node.js

Build a simple in-memory cache in Node.js

In order to accomplish anything important, you need to set multiple goals. Find out why Product Manager's goals need to be both in the big and in the small.


Goal Setting For Product Managers

A thorough guide on learning to use calligraphy efficiency, aimed at beginners. Learn how to get started, what pens to start with, and some tips & tricks.

How To Learn Calligraphy (for beginners)

The Real Value of Cucumber

These days, it seems that almost everybody wants to learn to code -- it seems that everybody thinks it's also easy to do.

Learning to Code: You’re Doing It Wrong

Use our simplified guide to learn the latest terms & trends around Cloud-Native and Cloud Computing terms.

Cloud Computing Terminology Made Simple

A Complete Guide to Cloud Computing Terms

A step-by-step guide for handling internationalization workflows in Emacs on React.

Emacs Workflow: Automating Internationalization in Emacs

Automating Internationalization Workflow in Emacs

There’s a lot that you can tell about an agency from its website, and not all of it obvious. Here are the five elements that, if you know what to look for, can help you come up with a confident evaluation of the software development agency you’re considering hiring.


Evaluating a Software Developments Agency's Website

Evaluating an Agency Website

Netlify provides split testing capabilities to test multiple branches of your web application. With a few tweaks you can easily integrate Google Analytics to analyze and report on your tests.

Netlify Split Testing with Google Analytics

Integrating Netlify's Split Testing with Google Analytics

What is the difference between building the right product and building the product right? Let’s take a look at the parts that make up this process.

Building the Right Product vs. Building the Product Right

Product Discovery is about building great products, but more importantly, about building the right products. This is why we start off with a Discovery Phase.

25 Discovery Questions To Cover In Your Next Product Kickoff

25 Questions To Cover In Your Discovery Kickoff

Dissecting the Cloud-Native Maturity Model from on-premise applications, through 100% native applications.

Cloud-Native Maturity Model (w/ Infographic)

Cloud-Native Maturity Model

I’d like to walk through my personal .vimrc file section by section and break down what and why I have the configuration settings I do. Given that my .vimrc has over 15 years’ worth of built-up cruft, this will also be a good exercise for me to clean it up a bit and update where needed as well.

Vimrc Tutorial for Advanced Users (With Examples) | MojoTech Blog

A Veterans Tutorial of Vim

Functional programming is all about building up complicated solutions from small, easy to understand parts.

6 Tips For Functional Programming | MojoTech

6 Tips For Functional Programming

TypeScript Generics provides nice facilities for quick and easy error detection when writing React components.


TypeScript - Leveraging Generics for React Components

TypeScript Generics for React Components

How Elixir's Ecto Promotes Well-Designed Applications

Magit is the holy grail of workspace tools, allowing Git users to handle all aspects of source control directly from within Emacs. 

Magit: A Git Porcelain inside Emacs

Why You Should Use Magit: A Git Porcelain Inside Emacs

In an initial consultation with any industry, there are typically some standard questions that can help isolate scope and cost. For a house painter...

Kicking Off A Product Discovery Process

How to Successfully Kick Off Your Product Discovery Process

Will Cohen graduated from UMASS Boston with a BS in Computer Science and has a background in building software for healthcare organizations. 

Will Cohen | MojoTech

Meet Will Cohen

As consultants at MojoTech, our job is not only to deliver great software products but to make the client-consultant experience enjoyable.

How to become a better software consultant | MojoTech

How to Be a Better Software Consultant

Meet Jordan - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Jordan

Product Management Biases (And How to Avoid Them).

Product Management Biases (And How to Avoid Them)

Meet Chris - our newest employee at MojoTech. Chris attended Providence College and Brandeis University to study the fine art of talking to computers.

New Mojo: Meet Chris Kudarauskas

Meet Chris

We're giving our readers a "peek behind the curtain" of our Git Workflow Best Practices and the ins-and-outs of our engineering practices at MojoTech.

Git Workflow Practices | MojoTech

MojoTech Git Workflow

Meet Gerald - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Gerald

Meet Lauren - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Lauren

Meet Vivian - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Vivian

It's no secret that we here at MojoTech are big advocates of Elixir. We're using it on client projects, talking about it at conferences, and we're even involved in an incredible conference this fall, Elixir with Love.

Elixir Toolkit

Health insurers & their marketing teams spend a ton of time and energy getting people to visit their websites. But is bad UX design costing them revenue?

Why Bad UX Is Causing Health Insurers to Lose Revenue

Here at MojoTech, we're React enthusiasts, so we rounded up our favorite links and resources to share.

React Toolkit

Clutch recently spoke with Will Farrell, Lead Software Architect at MojoTech, about cloud infrastructure options and various cloud solution options.

Cloud Infrastructure Options

CEO Nick Kishfy tells the Providence Business News about "innovation resources" in RI and what it was like to build a company up from 2 to nearly 50 employees.

Passion is Key Ingredient to Riding Out Tough Times

Meet Shaughnessy - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Shaughnessy

If you’re an engineer at a digital product company or agency, you’re probably no stranger to the principles of the agile method. You know that...

Avoiding Blockers: Sketch for Developers

A good product starts with excellent communication between all team members so that every player is engaged and working together to solve the same problem.

Conversation Over Documentation

Specifying Specifications

In software, that understanding — between designers, engineers, product managers, and especially clients — is just as essential.

Speaking the Product Language

Furhana comes to MojoTech after working for a variety of companies both large and small.

Meet Furhana - Product Manager

Meet Furhana

For all of us “mature” folk working hard to create value with technology, it is important to remember that the “A” word (agile) is nothing to be afraid of.

Being Agile — and Gray

There’s an old anecdote about a chicken and a pig. It goes like this, a pig and a chicken are walking down the road. The chicken says: 'Hey Pig, I was..

Why products built by large teams fail so often

Why Products Built by Large Teams Fail So Often

Kate comes to MojoTech with over 10 years of administrative and support experience.

Meet Kate - Operations Administrator

Meet Kate!

Meet Brandon - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Brandon!

Starting this year all MojoTech employees are eligible to take six weeks of paid leave for family or personal medical reasons.

Introducing Paid Family Leave at MojoTech

Meet Jeff Cole!

We’ve given hundreds of talks and written millions of righteous words about the problems we solve; insisting that designers don’t just "make things pretty".

Designers want to be taken seriously. Here's how we do it.

Designers Want to Be Taken Seriously. Here's How We Do It

REST for the Weary

Using what your company is - and already has - to ensure it's the best that it can be.

Four Ways to Ensure Your Company Is Your Best Product

Meet Channing

As one of the "elder statesmen" at MojoTech, I interview a lot of engineers. Over the years, I've come to see this more and more as a discipline in itself.

Conducting Technical Interviews:  The Human Factors

Tech Collective recently asked MojoTech how we are driving innovation, education, and growth across the state’s technology ecosystem at large.

Our Motivation for Building an Innovative Company

Elias obtained his CS degree from Grinnell College, a tiny little school in Iowa. He initially intended on majoring in physics but realized that he didn’t find physics jokes funny.

Meet Elias

Meet Andy - our newest employee at MojoTech.

Meet Andy

Writing and maintaining a useful test suite can be difficult. Today I’ll discuss some common causes of bad tests, and how to fix them.

Why Your Tests are Broken and How to Fix Them

The operations of our Elixir processes are uniquely suited to a visual representation that illustrates the operating network that our application will create.

The Elixir way: Operational Reasoning

Message Queues in a Microservices World

Safeguard Web Service Failures in Elixir with Fuse.

Safeguard Web Service Failures in Elixir with Fuse

Anybody writing software that has to work in more than one geographic area must at some point think about how to handle time zones. Many developers have an incomplete picture of how time zones work, and this post is written in an attempt to describe this convoluted area.

The Complexity of Time Data Programming | MojoTech Blog

The Complexity of Time Data Programming

Pro Tips for Styling States

There’s not much documentation out there related to forwarding React Native JS error messages to reporting services. We've come up with a solution.

Fabric Integration for React Native on Android

After a career spent working almost entirely with SQL-based relational databases, in the past year or so I've gotten the chance to use Datomic.

Datomic, the new Sequel to SQL?

Is Datomic the Sequel to SQL?

Origins of a Senior Engineer

A few of us at MojoTech recently attended the 2016 React Europe conference in Paris. It was a great opportunity to hear from developers around the world 

React Europe, A look back

A Look Back at React Europe

Announcing StandupHub Beta: Making Tomorrow's Standup Meeting a Whole Lot Easier.

As a child, Ryan was curious to a fault and often had to be warned not to take things apart. He decided to study Computer Science after realizing he was unofficially tutoring half of his dorm floor.