Who are the SDCoders?

Ben Alemu
The SDCoders
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5 min readJun 16, 2020

The modern era:

In this day and age, customers expect their favorite businesses and brands to engage with them digitally. In fact, your online presence is the primary way your business is discovered by new customers.

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93% of online experiences begin with a search on a search engine and 47% of people click on one of the first 3 listings outputted as the result of the search (SEJ 2016). Keeping this in mind, you would certainly want your business to appear amongst the top listings in order to garner more attention to your business website!

Prospective customers who click on your website expect responsive and prompt customer support, and absolute clarity on the information and content displayed on your website.

Does your brand seem reputable? Does your company seem knowledgeable? Does your social media remain relevant and interesting? What reviews have past users left on your service? Consumers ask these kinds of questions when comparing you to your competitors.

With ever expanding growth of technological advancements and use of technology, mobile applications have become increasingly popular. Companies use carefully crafted business strategies by making good use of web and mobile applications to build customer loyalty programs and to cast a wider net for potential customers. In addition to a website, a mobile app can help you send alerts to your customers with new discounts or promotions, news about your business and sales. You also can tap into online shopping and ordering features. Social media features, mapping features and live data can also be used to give your sales and marketing team a powerful series of tools to exceed your business goals.

From building websites to mobile apps to helping you get your business’s name out there, we, The SDCoders, are here to help!

Who we are:

The SDCoders is a professional software engineering studio that builds exceptional custom websites and mobile applications for small businesses to medium-sized corporations.

Our website: https://thesdcoders.com/

Our specialty:

Contact us for any new websites or mobile apps you want built.

For mobile apps -

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In our day jobs, we built iPhone and Android mobile applications that over 70,000 users use every month. We are professional software engineers with senior mobile development and senior web development experience.

We focus on mobile application design and engineering. We can help you design an app, sync live data to your business’ databases and enable push notifications to ping your customers with new updates.

For websites -

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We also designed and launched new websites for clients. These websites are secure, beautiful, mobile-optimized and search engine optimized (SEO). Every business we worked with received

Comprehensive technology support is provided to enable database support, security certificates, live chat, E-commerce, email and other support from our software and marketing teams.

Our values:

  • Build websites and mobile applications at a competitive cost.
  • Build fast — websites are built within 2 weeks and mobile applications within 2 months.
  • Lead the re-design of websites and mobile applications, to make them more responsive and technologically relevant, providing enriching experiences that delight your customers.
  • Assist with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) based on current Google standards to enhance sales and market share.

What makes us different from other freelance engineering teams:

  • We are client-centric and listen to your needs.
  • Our costs are reasonable
  • We are responsive, positive, flexible and can fix any issues you have.
  • We have a record of launching apps on the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store.
  • We do not outsource — all or our software is built in the USA, allowing us to guarantee the quality and time expectation for all our products.
  • Our San Diego and other offices have a strong culture of responsibility and ownership, when we commit to you — we commit to your business’ ongoing success.

Our core team:

JJ, Senior Software Engineer

JJ — The SDCoders

JJ spent the last few years working both, as a mobile app developer for a startup and as a web developer leading her freelance engineering team. She also taught iOS app development at Facebook University. She acquired project and time management skills, as well as the ability to communicate with her team members and clients while effectively meeting milestones and deadlines.

JJ has worked on web and mobile based projects for a range of clients providing Web Design using technologies like Sketch and Invision, and Development using languages and technologies: PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Java, Swift, Objective C, WordPress, Bootstrap, Responsive Layouts, eCommerce Solutions, Search Engine Optimization and time/project management technologies like: Github, Zenhub, Zoom, and Slack.

JJ completed her Masters degree in Computer Science and has extensively studied software engineering principles, computer security, operating systems, database design, user experience design, wireframes, needfinding, and worked in teams in which she puts to good use on every project she works on.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jigyasaa-sood/

Ben, Senior Software Engineer

Ben — The SDCoders

Ben develops custom websites and mobile applications. He leads the flagship iPhone application for a hospital that has 40,000 monthly users. He also built a therapeutic iPad application used by UCSD surgeons.

Prior to this, Ben worked as a Product Manager, Data Governance Specialist and Mobile Applications Developer. He also worked in 7 research laboratories across UC San Diego and Harvard Medical School. In addition to his experience in search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine management (SEM), he was awarded the UCSD Outstanding Marketing Plan of the Year. He won first place in the UC Health Hackathon and developed technology for hospitals.

Ben develops in Swift, Python, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and dozens of programming languages and tools. These include: Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, R, Bootstrap, Node, Keras, SciKit Learn, Tableau, Git, Command Line, several machine learning frameworks and many other tools.

Ben earned awards from several of the nation’s most competitive programs including NASA, Ford, Ashoka and the National Science Foundation. Other honors include the Westly Prize for Young Innovators of California (named a top 10 Californian under the age of 28) and the City of Downey, Mayor’s DNA award — along with a commemorative plaque from his hometown. He brings this same level of focus, creativity and ambition to the websites and apps he will build for your business.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balemu/

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Ben Alemu
The SDCoders

Benyam Alemu Sood works as a Mobile App Developer. He teaches iOS Class at Stanford CSP. He & his wife consult for Fortune 1000 companies and small businesses.