THE NEARSHORE ADVANTAGE: WHY COSTA RICA?

The educational system ranks #1 in Latin America providing a wealth of talented software engineers

Costa Rica is closer to the US than India, China, etc. Cultural similarities foster teamwork resulting in faster production

Costa Rica is Central Standard Time. The workday overlaps +/- 1 hour with the U.S. We work when you work

Real-time communications is efficient: No waiting overnight for answers to simple questions.

Cost Savings: Software development in Costa Rica is much less expensive than in the United States.

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Started as the Costa Rica Development Center. Originally

engineering applications for the

online gaming industry

Professional relationships begin with small and

medium-sized organizations resulting in

a series of successful development projects

Costa Rica Software Services is formed to address the needs of the growing United

States market for scalable modern

software development

COSTA RICA SOFTWARE TIMELINE

CRSS clients range from small to medium cap organizations with revenues between 20MM - 1B+

2020

UI/UX DESIGN

OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL INTEGRATIONS

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MOBILE APPLICATIONS

SOFTWARE DESIGN | DEVELOPMENT

QUALITY ASSURANCE

WEB DESIGN | DEVELOPMENT

TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS*

*A partial l ist of programming languages & development tools we deploy to help our clients succeed

! AWS, Google

! On-Premises

! Cloud hosting

! Multi-Tenant

! Android, iOS

! Xamarin

TECHNOLOGIES

! Java, C#, Scala, Groovy, Python, Ruby, PHP

! HTML5, CSS3, Carbon, React

! Bootstrap, jQuery, VueJS, Angular

! NodeJS, Drupal

! Spring, Spring Boot, OAuth

! Hibernate, Apache, Struts, Rest

! PostgresSQL, MSSQL, MySQL, NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Cassandra

DELIVERY MODEL(S)

AGILE PROCESS

! Scrum/Kanban

! Atlassian Stack

! Defining Epics, Stories & Tasks

! Cadence events

! Sprint planning

! Retrospectives

! Standups

TOOLS

! Security: SSL, AES, Certificates, eSigning

! Tools: Ant, Maven, Gradle, Ajax, JSON, XML

! Versioning: SVN, GIT, SafeSource, CVS, Team Foundation

! QA: Junit, Nunit, Jenkins, Cruise Control

! OS: Desktop, Linux, iOS, Android

! Reporting: Jakarta, SSRS, Crystal Reports

ADAPTABLE AGILE PROCESS

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A PROVEN PROCESS TO ENGINEER SUCCESS

We are dedicated to the iterative lightweight

development process where requirements and solutions evolve

through efficient real-time collaboration.

Our clients tell us they have trouble telling the

difference between their U.S. team

members and our CRSS people during stand-ups, team meetings

and daily communications

We utilize the Atlassian

stack for sprint and project tracking; Slack

and Skype for communications; and, standard development

tools such as Github, AWS, Google, Linux, among many more

Process Communications Tools

INDUSTRY VERTICALS

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Healthcare Telecom E-Learning Fintech Social media apps

Fulfillment services software

Dan Laguna

Software Director

TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

Tim Mills

President & CTO

Tim has 20+ years of technology leadership experience in the corporate world as CTO | VP of Software Engineering at companies small & large. With a track record of delivering software development projects on-time and within budget, Tim is a trusted resource for CRSS clients.

Dan has 15+ years of experience as a Director, Architect & Lead Developer. He has a Masters in Computer Applications. Dan is skilled in modern technologies including Blockchain, Java, Javascript, C#, Python, PHP, Spring and others.

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Alejandro Mora

Senior Architect

Ale has 14+ years of experience as a Software Engineer. He has a Masters in Computer Science. He is a well-versed Architect & Tech Lead. Ale is skilled in multiple programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C#, PHP and Javascript and has strong abilities in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

TRUSTED BY GREAT COMPANIES

APiO is a FinTech company leveraging Big Data, Blockchain , AI & Machine Learning to transform how capital is accessed & invested.

Project Description: APiO is a Daffinity Technology Ventures portfolio company and leverages the proven SecureSync data integration technology.

https://apio.tech

T E C H N O L O G Y

S T A C KD E V E L O P M E N T

L A N G U A G ED A T A B A S E S E R V E R

CASE STUDY

.NET 4.0 CONNECTOR DEVELOPMENT -DLLs .NET 4.5.2 .NET 4.0 CONNECTOR

DEVELOPMENT -DLLsWINDOWS

GIT (GITFLOW)

S O U R C E C O N T R O L

RESHARPER

AGILE/SCRUM

JIRA

T O O L S

P R O J E C T

C H A L L E N G E SD E L I V E R A B L E S

QUICKBOOKS INTEGRATION

API LEARNING

API + CONTROLLERS - DLL’s

Project Resources: 4 Full Stack Software Developers + 2 Front End Developers + 1 UX/UI

Developer

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

DOUG MEALING, SVP | CHIEF ARCHITECT

“I would like to thank the wonderful people at Costa Rica Software Services for the fine work they have done for me over many years.  They are a joy to work with, deliver quality work on-time and have made my life easier.  I highly recommend them for software professional services.”

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“Tim and his entire team at CRSS have been absolutely world class with their communication as well as executing the various projects we’ve done together over the last several years. They’ve got high integrity and are very skilled in the area of software development. Working with them has been a true resource for my business.”

STUART FAUGHT, FOUNDER & CEO

WHY CHOOSE CRSS?

TALENTED, SCALABLE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS Development projects include flexible combinations of the CRSS team including our CTO, Software Architect(s), Developers, QA’s, Scrum Masters and Project Managers.

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP Our CTO and Chief Architect(s) are engaged from project inception through completion.

QUALITY ENGINEERING Quality assurance, testing, and verification are integrated into development cycles so that your software is secure and reliable

PLUG & PLAY Our talented developers augment your team or can become your engineering department. We work the way you work, adapting to changing requirements to get the job done. Short, iterative development cycles result in software delivered early and often.

COST SAVINGS Creating elegant, reliable software is expensive. CRSS succeeds at a fraction of the cost.

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION We engineer success by delivering your software on-time and within budget.

THANK YOU | GRACIAS