About StepChange

Founders

Harry Tormey: 15 years experience working in software engineering at Bay Area companies such as Meta, Apple, Coinbase and various early stage startups. Harry has managed a variety of teams shipping products and infrastructure to millions of customers leveraging technologies such as Airflow, Python, AWS, NodeJS, NextJS, React, React Native. At Coinbase Harry was responsible for consumer Borrowing and Lending, On-Chain advertising, Earn.com, Pro Mobile
and Web3 developer tools and SDK’s.

Niall O’Higgins: Senior engineering leader with over 18 years of experience working at Bay Area tech companies and high security environments such as Metaweb, Nextdoor and Coinbase. At Coinbase, Niall was responsible for all end-to-end Crypto transaction processing - tens of billions of dollars a day, 24/7/365.
Niall, wrote the O’Reilly book “MongoDB and Python”, has spoken at AWS re:Invent and PyCon. Developed Rosetta open source blockchain standard (“Docker for Blockchains”).

Both founders have in the past run boutique consultancies with clients such as Best Buy, American Express, Microsoft, Ticketmaster and various early stage startups.

Our Mission: Reduce costs & improve efficiency

We are trusted experts in migrating from expensive legacy systems to modern and efficient ones based on open source which can be hosted on-prem or in the cloud. We pride ourselves on being your neutral partner that specializes in moving away from licensed software and consolidating on efficient and standardized solutions. We will work with any cloud or data center.

Obsessed about quality

The StepChange team is composed of engineering experts with decades of experience working on infrastructure at scale at some of the world's biggest and best tech companies like Meta, Apple, Coinbase.

Our DNA is to be obsessed with comprehensive testing and detailed documentation. We know how to be a trusted partner who takes ownership of deliverables and proactively communicates with you to overcome any blockers that might stand in a project’s way.

Modernize & migrate

Our team has expertise in both legacy and modern systems enabling us to fill in the gaps for systems where knowledge may have been lost. Our narrow focus is on data infrastructure migrations and modernizations. We have a track record of delivering at-scale projects on time.