Our work - Crafting Success: Our Journey with Innovators and Visionaries

Discover how Elephant and Rope has propelled startups to new heights through cutting-edge digital solutions and strategic partnerships.

Case studies

Nossa Data

MVP Development, AWS Infrastructure, ISO27001

From 2-Week MVP to 1000+ Users: Scaling an ESG Platform

Delivered a fully functional MVP to trial users (Toyota, Vodafone) within 2 weeks using FastAPI, React, Next.js, and AWS Fargate.

Scaled from pre-MVP to 170+ companies (1000+ users) in 6 weeks after closing a major deal.

Became the official reporting platform for Thomson Reuters Foundation Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI).

Promoted to Head of Engineering and led full ISO27001 security refactor using Pulumi.

Elephant and Rope enabled us to roll out a product that delighted thousands of users, on schedule. They were responsible for various key aspects of our platform, from our core back-end infrastructure to providing technical insight and implementation as we rolled out v1 of dozens of features. While professionally an engineering firm, Elephant and Rope has an eye for design and strength in product, which is key for any early-stage tech start-up.

Julianne Flesher, Co-founder & CEO of Nossa Data

BUMP (YC W18)

Backend Migration, CQRS Architecture, GraphQL API

Single-File Monolith to CQRS: Scaling a StockX-Like Marketplace

Joined as the first engineer on the new full-stack team at a YC-backed startup.

Migrated the entire backend from a single-file Parse.js app to a scalable NestJS + GraphQL API.

Architected a CQRS-based event-driven order system for a StockX-like marketplace.

Coordinated with mobile teams (iOS/Android) for seamless front-end integration.

Managed SCRUM processes and led the end-to-end engineering hiring pipeline.

Tessian

Enterprise Security, CI/CD, Client-Side Engineering

Employee #11 to 200+: Deploying Email Security to the Bank of England

Joined as Employee #11, the first client-side engineer at a <15-person startup.

Helped scale the company to 200+ employees (Sequoia, Accel, Balderton backed; later acquired by Proofpoint).

Deployed email security infrastructure to the Bank of England and Dentons using on-premise Ansible scripts.

Led migration of flagship Outlook Add-in from legacy VB.NET to modern C#.

Co-engineered a high-throughput email gateway (MTA) with full Concourse CI/CD pipeline.

Elephant and Rope enabled us to roll out a product that delighted thousands of users, on schedule. While professionally an engineering firm, they have an eye for design and strength in product, which is key for any early-stage tech start-up.

Nossa Data

You’re in good company

  • Nossa Data
  • BUMP
  • Tessian
  • CANDDi
  • Tilt.app

Ready to scale your MVP or audit your technical foundation?

Based in

  • London
    3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London
    England, United Kingdom, EC2A 4NE