About Us
Every company has a story. Here’s ours.
Who We Are
Recurring billing involves more than just charging credit cards each month.
You need a billing system you can trust. You need Chargify.
Chargify is a recurring billing application built by a team with more than twenty years of combined experience. We not only acknowledge the unique demands you face when it comes to billing, we’ve experienced them first-hand while running businesses of our own. That’s why we’re committed to providing a truly outstanding recurring billing application engineered for the long-haul.
The Big Idea
The sheer number of today’s subscription-based applications demanded a smart billing system built on years of experience. Unfortunately, the market was filled with clunky, off-the-shelf systems that fell short, and enterprise solutions that charged huge set up and transaction fees. Finally, we thought: Why not just build an intelligent billing application system ourselves? So, we put our years of knowledge to good use, and Chargify was born.
Meet the Team
Chargify is based out of Boston and San Francisco, with team members across the United States. Our parent company, Grasshopper Group has empowered over 100,000 entrepreneurs over the last six years, and our co-founder and CEO, Lance Walley, has a long history in the start-up world.
Lance Walley
CEO & FounderLance is a technology start-up veteran who before Chargify, co-founded Engine Yard in 2006, which grew into a key player in Ruby on Rails services in the cloud. As CEO of Engine Yard, Lance fostered rapid growth and implemented a strong management team. He served as CEO until his friendly departure in 2009. Before that, Lance founded Quality Humans in 2001 to provide Perl consulting services, and co-founded Parallax in 1987, which makes tiny computers that can still be purchased worldwide. In his free time, Lance enjoys reading the newspaper, riding motorcycles, and trying out independent coffeehouses.
David Hauser
FounderDavid Hauser is co-founder of Grasshopper and Grasshopper Labs. One of the youngest co-founders of a company to be named to Inc.‘s list of “500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America,” David is a passionate technologist. David was also co-founder of Return Path, an e-mail performance management company, and founder of WebAds360, an ad-serving technology provider for small and mid-sized businesses. David has been featured on CNN, named one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and many other publications. David was born and raised in New York City. He also enjoys long walks on the beach.
Siamak Taghaddos
FounderSiamak Taghaddos is co-founder of Grasshopper and Grasshopper Labs. One of the youngest CEOs of a company to be named to Inc.’s prestigious list of “500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America,” Siamak could be described as a one-man, full-service ad agency. Siamak has been featured on CNN, named one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Siamak was born in Iran and raised in Boston. He is also a student of Sun Tzu.
Michael Klett
Senior Web Applications DeveloperMichael is a former hardware engineer who designed circuit boards for Alcatel, and parts of the XBOX 360 CPU for IBM. After his adoption of Ruby on Rails, Michael left the hardware world in 2007 to pursue web development full-time. He launched his own company, Web Advocate, to create custom e-commerce sites and content management systems, and ran it for two years. Now, as Senior Web Applications Developer at Grasshopper Labs, Michael relishes solving engineering and business challenges using the web as a platform. He derives particular enjoyment from working on applications that help entrepreneurs. Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State University. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing soccer, snowboarding, and putting together puzzles with his daughter.
Michael Buffington
Senior Web Applications DeveloperMichael Buffington is an entrepreneur and super geek. He’s been focused on building community and entrepreneur focused companies and projects since 1992, starting with a single line BBS with a 9600 baud modem, followed by companies like Price.com, MeasureMap (acquired by Google), Values of N (acquired by Twitter), and Grockit. He’s a frequent speaker at tech and creative conferences. In his spare time, Michael enjoys building Lego robots with his kids, culturing corals in his LED lit reef aquarium, building games, skateboarding, and playing the guitar. He’s also obsessed with improving remote team dynamics with a bias towards extreme programming and agile development.
Nathan Verni
Web Applications DeveloperNathan Verni is a NYC based web developer who has been working with Rails since early 2006. Nathan led the open source development team at Blenderbox, an award winning interactive agency in Brooklyn, where he learned the value of working with small, passionate teams and the meaning of the term “pixel-perfect”. He believes in lower-case ‘a’ agile development and iteratively building useful products. Though Ruby is his primary language, he also keeps up with the Django, Scala and .NET MVC communities. When not coding, Nathan enjoys discovering new music, reading the classics, and hanging out with his wife and cat. He has a B.S. in Information Systems from Syracuse University.
Rodrigo Franco
Web Applications DeveloperRodrigo Franco is a Brazilian web application developer and living proof of the viability of something called trans-ocean geekitude. He’s been using Ruby on Rails since version 0.17. Prior to that, he was immersed in many other languages and frameworks. Specializing in nearshore work, he’s spent the last five years working on projects around the world, including Odeo.com, Simpleticket and Moourl.com. He manages one of the biggest Ruby on Rails communities in Brazil and likes playing mmorpgs, board games and searching for the perfect coffee.
What We’ve Been Up To
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