We are a minority-owned digital services company focused on projects with social impact.
Focus was founded in 2019 to bring together a diverse set of industry and government experiences, and best-in-class digital services capabilities in agile software development, human-centered design, and DevSecOps. Our projects span work that addresses equity, healthcare, benefits, and learning across government and commercial clients.
Our values guide both how we work with our colleagues and how we view our partnerships.
Our jobs involve taking complicated topics and working to remove the ambiguity; our clients rely on us to work and communicate honestly and efficiently.
We always come prepared, researching and documenting before raising topics with our clients. We respect our clients' time by asking questions that get to the root of things faster.
Our reputation with our clients is critical to our success as a business and that reputation is built by consistently delivering on what we promise to do.
The industry is constantly evolving, and in order to stay relevant we constantly grow our skill sets to serve current and future clients.
We bring deep expertise in full-stack web development using agile development processes. Our staff have successfully built and maintained high complexity applications serving millions of users.
We center our work on human-centered design and research to gain deep insights into user challenges and needs. We use user research and testing before and after feature launches to gain insights and make our work more valuable.
Our teams have strong experience processing, transforming, integrating, and synthesizing large volumes of diverse data sets. We have a depth of experience working with healthcare data across government, insurers, and hospitals.
Our product managers work with their design and research colleagues to understand customer needs, work with our stakeholders, and craft high value solutions. We make data-driven product decisions by defining and tracking success metrics within an agile development approach.
We develop and improve robust CI/CD processes that free up developers to focus on providing user value, accessibility, and privacy. We work across the cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). We use infrastructure as code approach to consistently define our cloud resources with automated deploys.
Our project managers tie everything together by supporting our planning, stakeholder coordination, and delivery work. We use strong documentation and communication practices to work efficiently in an increasingly distributed world.
Meet our diverse team of technologists.
Ant Addis
CEO
Michael Kalish
CTO
Kevon Paynter
Product Manager
Tshering Yudon
Designer
Carl Hicks
Support Engineer
Eyuel Abebe
Software Engineer
Gabriel Dorsch
Software Engineer
Iverson Diles
Software Engineer
Jack Wang
Software Engineer
Jamie Albinson
Software Engineer
Japhet Teshale
Software Engineer
Kant Kodali
Software Engineer
Kolawole Balegun
Software Engineer
Logan Ricard
Software Engineer
Mike Liu
Software Engineer
Sid Hackney
Software Engineer
Thu Pham
Software Engineer