Our goal & mission
“Our mission is to build, develop and work on industry-changing ideas that make peoples lives in business easier and more efficient”
Jackson Howell, Founder
Riselabs ❤️’s startup ideas
Riselabs now has worked on hundreds of client projects, some did not come to be, lots are alive and thriving, and many still ongoing with our skill-diverse team. We particularly like working with startups, both small and corporate-level, as our expertise thrive in a challenging environment where we know the end goal, but need to work out all of the puzzles to get there.
Why the name "Riselabs"?
The company name, Riselabs, is a mix between two concepts: to “rise” and fly, growing and launching into the world. And “labs“, the idea of a laboratory-type environment where ideas are experimented on and eventually graduate to real world-helping products or services.
What is the logo?
The logo is our airship! I, the founder, love airships and a little bit of steampunk. I loved the idea that Riselabs – as a concept – was always striving to build better technology to “fly” and that the airship represents those advancements in technology.
What do all the flying metaphors mean?
You’ll see things “launchpad“, “flying” and “airborne” dotted around in our language. As our logo is an airship, we use these metaphors to promote taking an idea from the ground, in a hangar, to flight.
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Projects worked on since founding in 2016
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Team members across the world
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Our team is comprised of genuinely gifted individuals with unique skills
Riselabs has grown into a thriving company with a dynamic and highly skilled team of amazing people. Our team is dotted worldwide, from the UK, Ukraine, India and more as we bring on new people to widen our company skillset.
We’ve brought on new team members and worked with contractors from China and the USA. Indeed, there are some fantastic people out there, and some of the best work for Riselabs.
Jackson founded Riselabs to help people turn their ideas into working products. It all started when a startup asked to build a new service for the care industry by combining his other developers’ skills.
Alex works with our clients to keep their websites and servers running smooth. He also writes content for Riselabs, manages our own website and accounts whilst juggling near-daily changes in the projects we’re working on.
Alex is an expert in UI design and user experience. Almost all of the design work we produce has come from his mind, using years of experience to create exceptionally user-friendly interfaces.
Our clients love Shrutika for catching any unwanted bugs before our users see them. She is an experienced software tester who writes detailed test reports for our developers to crush bugs before they find their way into production.
Poulami often works on unique projects where data is the central focus. She has extensive knowledge of iOS and Android hybrid development, including APIs and data manipulation.
Alina keeps our projects running smooth, our teams coordinated and our clients informed. She is our resident octopus of Project Management, with arms connecting to all that is happening in Riselabs.
Subhrasish helps our teams appraise our projects’ complexity and viability, breaking them down into manageable modules and providing our team support during the development phase.
Haik is a iOS Mobile, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and Swift Developer with years of experience building apps.
Languages: Swift, Objective-C, Objective-C++, C/C++, Scala, Java, Ruby.
SDK: iOS, Cocoa, macOS / OS X, tvOS, watchOS, Android.
IDE: Xcode, AppCode, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio.
VCS: Git, Mercurial, SVN.
SCM: Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Codebase, Microsoft VSTS.
Dependency Manager: CocoaPods, Carthage, Swift Package Manager.
CIS: TravisCI, JenkinsCI, Fastlane, GitLabCI.
TDD/BDD: Quick, Nimble, XCUnit
Code Design: SwiftLint
Code Docs: Jazzy
Database: SQLite, CoreData, Realm, MongoDB
Development Pattern: Clean Architecture, MVVM, FRP
IoT Services: Firebase, PubNub, Parse
There are even more talented people who work with Riselabs daily! We’re always looking out for talented developers, designers and project managers. Contact Us if you believe you’d complement our team with new skills.
Our Riselabs journey
2016
Riselabs Founded
Riselabs originally co-founded in 2016 as a joint venture to work with potential clients who had amazing startup business ideas.
2017
Riselabs grows to a larger team with an office in Peterborough
As our client base grows, we bring on a couple more in-house developers and hire an apprentice to help with setting up clients.
2018
Riselabs moves to fully remote working
With clients starting to become increasingly further afield, I decided that we should move to a remote working setup where we no longer had a physical office. We rarely had clients in our office space – so it made sense to go remote!
2019
Now fully remote, we begin to work with developers and designers across the globe
We discovered that no longer being tethered to a physical location meant we could work with clients anywhere in the world without restriction – including bringing in team members from other countries with incredible design and development talents.
2020
Riselabs continues to work on ever-increasingly bigger projects + a brand update
Although 2020 has been an… interesting year for businesses, we took on a few fantastic projects. Plus, working with an incredible local designer, we worked together to refresh the Riselabs brand and logo (which I originally put together in 2016 in a day!).
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