Our Services
We have a broad range of expertise building web and internet infrastructure.
On Demand Experts
Looking to explore the benefits of having senior experts at your fingertips?
Our block-of-time engagement model offers a low-commitment way to see how our seasoned guidance can drive results in just 10-20 hours.
We can help you tackle a key challenge, provide actionable insights, and set up the groundwork for ongoing success.
Discovery and Requirements
We transform complex visions into clear, actionable plans.
Consensus will guide your team through a structured discovery process to align stakeholders and define requirements that drive successful outcomes.
Let us discover how to achieve your goals together!
Coaching
Our experienced developers and engineers love to share their knowledge and expertise.
We can engage your team with ongoing coaching to level up their skills and build confidence to achieve your goals.
Let us help build your capacity with a coaching engagement!
Technology Leadership
Need expert technology guidance without a full-time hire?
We provide strategic technology leadership for organizations and teams.
Our Fractional CTO service offers experienced, hands-on direction tailored to align technology with your mission.
Staff Augmentation
Need a specific skillset to achieve your next project's goals?
Consensus team members excel at integrating directly into your team, providing valuable hands-on expertise and knowledge transfer.
Automation and Infrastructure
Moving to the cloud? We can build your platform.
Solid CI/CD processes and automation tools ensure the quality and stability of your systems.
Let us help you tune your well-oiled machine.
Web Applications
Consensus is a premier web development and internet engineering company. We love building web systems, applications, and projects.
We provide end-to-end project management, development, and deployment for highly specialized applications.
Aegir Consulting
We are maintainers and developers of the AEgir hosting system.
We provide expert consulting and hands-on support for your AEgir environment.
Talk to us about your secure hosting needs and how AEgir can help!
Software-as-a-Service Engineering
Our clients entrust their SaaS applications to our team of experts.
Leverage our proven Agile and DevOps maturity to:
- Increase service reliability
- Improve time-to-market
- Reduce development complexity
Our Approach
The magic of the cloud is that very small teams can have access to the same computing power, technologies, and deployment cycles that are used at the largest tech companies.
The headache of the cloud is that each of those parts comes with its own learning curve and overhead. You didn't build your business to become operations specialists... But we did.
As your technical partners, we make it our business to get through the obstacles and bring your project to a successful reality.
MoreAutomated testing and deployment are at the core of everything we do. We prioritize clean and well-documented code and emphasize reusability, transparency, and robustness.
By embracing and contributing to mature open source ecosystems, we ensure the long term sustainability of our systems.
Our team of senior developers and engineers has the wealth of experience necessary to pick the right tool for the job and make sure that your project approach is founded in best practices.
MoreOur architectural choices focus on making it easy for future developers to modify and extend our work.
Not only do we make extensive contributions to larger open source projects, we open source the tools we build.
By integrating well-tested and evaluated components, we achieve professional results that incorporate the best practices and knowledge of a broader community.
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Our Team
We are a distributed international team with a majority of members based in Canada, eh?
Christopher Gervais
Christopher has deep experience and insight as a senior systems engineer. He is precisely who you need to overcome the risks inherent in major cloud infrastructure projects. He delivers systems that provide extreme reliability, performance and highly efficient development processes.
Your web-based projects, from business tools to marketing campaigns, can rely on the kind of stability and performance that Christopher produces. If technical problems are turning into sleeping problems, you know who to call.
Dan Friedman
Dan combines decades of hands-on experience in multiple organizational styles, sizes, and industries. Focusing on people-first leadership and deployment automation, he is equally comfortable slinging infrastructure-as-code, wading into swamps of legacy entanglement, or helping teams navigate transformation and change.
With a customer-centric mindset and a tireless dedication to measurable effectiveness, Dan is passionate about agility, comfortable with ambiguity, and committed to delivering results.
Derek Laventure
Derek brings an ever-present, user-focused awareness to his decades of DevOps experience. He has transformed problematic legacy web projects into sophisticated, effective and easy-to-manage web properties.
Derek explores and exploits the natural affinity between Information Architecture, aimed at meeting users on their own terms, and the heavily technical discipline of data design and implementation. Underneath it all, he has a solid, ground-up mastery of network infrastructure. And all of this is delivered with a terrific smile.
Matt Parker
Hobby programming since 2000; professional web developer since 2005; Drupal developer since 2009. Experience in the software development, government and retail industries.
Long-time open-source contributor, especially in the Drupal community. Acquia Certified Developer and Individual Member of the Drupal Association. Always willing to help!
Scott Zhu Reeves
Scott brings a thoughtful and human-focused lens to his work. He combines a sharp eye for good design in all its forms with the programming expertise to tackle your trickiest web tangles.
Scott loves to learn about the ever-evolving web, passionately engaging with Open source technology and community. He has participated as both a Drupal core committer as well as in Drupal's Diversity & Inclusion working group.
Serena Zhu Reeves
Serena is a full-stack Web Developer, able to pick up tasks quickly and run with them. She has been managing all aspects of web development since 2014: concept to requirements definition, design, development, launch, maintenance and user support.
Serena enjoys working collaboratively in a team to produce high-quality work. She has experience working with multi-disciplinary teams using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Our Mission
Vision
We envision an open, welcoming and safe IT industry, that empowers purpose-driven people and teams to build a more just world.
Mission
We craft high-quality technology solutions. We provide context and leadership so that purpose-driven teams can focus on their missions. We aspire to be an example for other IT companies in pursuing our vision both effectively and ethically.
Our core values describe how we intend to operate in the world:
- People come first. We must prioritize people over profit. No one should have to compromise their values for material gain. We must also recognize that we are people with lives outside of work.
- We strive to make a positive impact. We are mission- and values-driven. Our policies must be driven by our goals. When our goals change, we should revise policies accordingly.
- We maintain a growth mindset. We must support each other in seeking out new opportunities and challenges. Professional maturity is fundamental to our success.
- We have solidarity with each other and our communities. We must contribute, collaborate, support and share to promote our mutual success.
Our worldview describes how we believe the world ought to work:
- Healthy organizations are built on trust and respect. We must ensure transparency and safety, and assume good faith.
- Everyone’s voice matters. We should seek consensus on important decisions; recognizing and respecting that we are equal but different.
- A group is more than the sum of its parts. Distributed and flexible leadership must strive for healthy dynamics to unlock the power of the group.
- Nothing is written in stone. We must evolve, grow and change, both as individuals, organizations, and society at large.
- Truth matters. Science, logic, data, evidence and good-faith debate and discussion (including diverse voices) are how we build a shared understanding of reality.
- Information wants to be free but privacy must be respected. Copyleft software, documentation and culture is the only way to ensure that private information remains private.
Contact Consensus
Got an interesting project, fascinating web application, or need expert infrastructure support?
Get in touch! We'll be happy to discuss your needs and how our team can help.