In 2011, David Krett, the founder of w2d consulting, became a co-founder and CTO of an Asian Based Internet startup what2do.asia. David led the development and deployment to production of this platform using a Ruby on Rails stack. In 2015, the founders decided to wind down this startup due to an inability to find product market fit and David relocated back to North America - where he founded - w2d consulting.
From 2015-2018, prior to deciding to focus w2d business efforts on Web3 and Defi, w2d consulting was involved in numerous application consulting assignments for several NGOs as well as working with startups providing technical solutions to scaling issues they had encountered.
A summary of some of this Web2 expertise is detailed below:
| Client | Task |
|---|---|
| HIEC - apprenticesearch.com | Project manager and team lead for the full rebuild, redesign, development and deployment of this unique job search site, implemented in Ruby On Rails, Vue Js and PostgreSQL |
| Toronto Global/NeptisGeoweb.org | Project Manager/Lead for enhancing and adding new features and datasets to neptisgeoweb.org. Leading and mentoring a team of 2 junior programmers. |
| Hauler Ads Inc. | Web Application/Performance Optimization: Re-architected a rails application and postgresql database used as a repository for real time collection and analysis of data from gps devices. |
| Stealth Startup | API for Mobile Transit App: Development lead for an API for this businesses mobile apps using ROR, Postgresql, Postgis and PGRouting. |
| Iconic Brewing Co. | CRM & Inventory Management System: Retained to solve ongoing problems with reliability and performance. Work resulted in system operating with 99.99% reliability and significant improvements in performance (Peak query timed down from 38 secs to 500ms) |
| Condobees | Data API/Data Scraping and Analysis: Completed the engineering, development and deployment of a data API which scrapes and analyses data on an ongoing basis for use by a Toronto real estate startup in growing their business. |
| Itsme3d | External API integration: Retained to integrate this company’s social sharing application with Facebook. |
| What2do.Asia | Web Application/Startup: Co-founder and CTO of this Asian based startup. Led a team of developers and designers and involved in all aspects of the design, deployment and operation of what2do.asia using modern internet frameworks/ technologies and agile development practices. Established an advisory board and co-ordinated fund raising with angel and seed investors. |