Our story

Kelly & Timur (founders)

We are former scientists with PhD and MS degrees in chemistry and biology. Shortly after academia, we taught ourselves how to code. Kelly is a frontend and Timur is a full-stack web developer. Together, we've built over a dozen software projects for ourselves and our clients.

In the past, we founded a VC-funded software company. We built Drizzle (paywall software) to break even with 2 employees but ultimately shut down the company. We grew unhappy working on numerous customizations for big customers. Since then, we promised to build a product with many small customers instead of a few big ones. We self funded Async and all of our open source projects.

We wrote a popular (and profitable) web development book and became active in open source.

Our SaaS Boilerplate is a popular open source project and upcoming book for engineers who want to build a SaaS business using TypeScript. Revenue from our books and Async buys us time to contribute to open source and to work with local nonprofits.

In 2018, we released our internal team communication tool: Async. We built numerous software projects for ourselves and our clients using Async. In every project, Async helped us stay focused, calm, and healthy.

We've lived in big cities and tech hubs but ultimately settled on 30 wooded acres of the beautiful Pend Oreille county of Washington state.

We enjoy working from home, swimming, berry picking, growing plants, cooking and hiking with our 2 dogs.

Del (first and only employee) and his family

I'm a back-end developer. I studied software engineering in college and have nearly 10 years of experience building web apps with Python and JavaScript.

Before joining Async, I developed CMS, eCommerce, and various types of SaaS applications.

I am active in open source and have contributed significantly to Builder Book and SaaS Boilerplate.

I live in Mongolia. I enjoy working remotely and spending time with my wife and 2 children.

Hatchet and Grizzly

Hatchet (left) and Grizzly (right) are our first dogs. They are both German and Czech Shepherd mixes.

Grizz is a therapy dog and Hatchet is a guard dog. But both are responsible for Kelly and Timur's breaks for fun time and hikes.

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