The challenge
Flipgrid set out to give every student a voice through short video. That promise only holds up if the platform stays fast and reliable while usage climbs from a few classrooms to millions of learners around the world. Flipgrid needed senior engineers who could move at product speed without letting quality slip as the audience grew.
What we did
Tarmac plugged a senior, multidisciplinary team into Flipgrid’s own team. We built and extended core features on a Ruby on Rails and React stack, running on AWS so the platform could scale with demand. Working the same hours as the Flipgrid team, we shipped continuously, reviewed each other’s code, and kept quality high through the Tarmac 10. The relationship was a genuine partnership rather than a hand-off, with our engineers accountable for what they merged.
The results
Flipgrid grew into a video learning platform used in classrooms all over the world, surpassing one million downloads across 180 countries. The product held up as usage scaled, and the partnership gave Flipgrid the senior capacity to keep shipping.
Nate Edwards, VP of Engineering at Flipgrid, put it simply: “Our Tarmac teammates are professional, highly-skilled, and passionate. The total package.”
Tech stack
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- AWS
“Our Tarmac teammates are professional, highly-skilled, and passionate. The total package.”