Voodle, Inc

Everything we do at Voodle is customer-focused. Each new feature begins with thoughtful planning that incorporates our product vision, customer feedback, internal insight, analytics, and collaborative discussion to identify key scenarios and user stories. Our development process is inclusive, and we welcome diverse input from all members of the Voodle team—not just engineering.

User stories are turned into detailed specification documents that describe each feature in more detail. These documents become the focus of group discussions that we call Space Jams, where we talk through the architecture and technical implementation of each feature.

While members of the development team each have their own specialties, anyone can work on any aspect of our product development, and we encourage cross-pollination. Not only is this a great way to collaborate, but it also gives our developers a way to explore tools, languages, and technologies that interest them and to expand their skillset.

At Voodle, we have a value called: fail fast in public. This value promotes the ability to experiment, take risks, and innovate with an agile release schedule that puts features into the hands of testers and customers quickly, allowing for a tight feedback loop that leads to continuous and frequent product improvement. After a new set of features is released, we start the process over again, incorporating everything we learned along the way.

We use modern tools, continuous integration, and single-button deployment and rollback. We strongly prefer everything to be buildable from source, ideally in an automated fashion. We use Jira to track progress on features and bug reports.

We're building a scaleable video platform to help teams collaborate. We have interesting technical challenges in the space of video encoding/streaming, mobile and web scalability, and utilizing Google/Amazon's ML platform for transcriptions and video analysis.