About us
A team with history
makandra is a team of Ruby developers and Linux systems engineers based in Germany. We develop and operate ambitious web applications based on Ruby on Rails. Since our company was established in 2009, we have successfully delivered more than 100 Rails projects. Our site reliability engineers take care of stable operations for more than 100 Rails applications on more than 90 servers. We also provide advice on Amazon Web Service projects.
Our customers stem from a wide variety of industries and range from start-ups to medium-sized businesses to enterprises. Common to all our clients and projects is our technology stack and our approach to technical projects.
Our corporate values
Our services are at the highest level - both technically and organizationally. To achieve this, we have committed ourselves to certain values:
Technical excellence
Outstanding technical results in our projects are our central ambition and our self-conception. Our customers and employees know that makandra stands for the highest quality - without any compromises.
Integrity
Our communication is always open and honest. We take full responsibility for our tasks and their results. We keep promises to customers and colleagues without any restrictions.
Culture of Support
Personal and professional development at makandra is extremely important to us. We take the time to document and share all our knowledge and experience. We help each other and take responsibility early on.
Own initiative
Whether in customer projects or internal processes: We actively seek opportunities for improvement. We are open to new developments and topics, which we drive forward and implement on our own initiative.
Meet our team
A local agency with global clients
While makandra is based in Germany, a large percentage of our development and operations services is delivered to companies in the United States and the wider European Union.
We are used to working within international teams, communicating remotely with tools like Slack, Skype or appear.in. All our engineers speak fluent English. With an issue tracker like Trello, JIRA, or Pivotal Tracker you always know which stories have been completed and which changes we are currently working on.
Open source at makandra
We are actively contributing to the open source community. On top of more than 3200 guides and tutorials on makandracards we maintain popular Ruby libraries such as active_type, Spreewald, and Consul.
One of our latest and largest open-source projects is Unpoly. Unpoly provides traditional web applications with modern and fast-responding views, without requiring the application to be rebuilt with a complex Javascript frontend framework.
