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socraft
The craftspeople of digital. Expert tech talent, ready for your projects.
About
Founded in 2019 in Lausanne, socraft brings together a community of close to 100 crafters across Switzerland, France and Morocco: developers, product managers, designers and architects. Our conviction comes from software craftsmanship: software is built with rigour, by craftspeople who have mastered their trade, not by interchangeable resources.
- Our areas of expertise: software engineering, IT architecture, IT strategy and IT organisation, product design, agile consulting and support.
- Our approach: field-tested vetting of every crafter on real projects, matching on stack and business context, onboarding in days rather than months.
- Our commitment: your autonomy, our success. We don't create dependency, we pass on the practices and leave behind teams capable of carrying on without us.
- Our team: a core leadership based in Lausanne and several dozen active crafters in the pool, across more than 50 delivered projects.
In short, socraft is software craftsmanship at scale: the technical depth of a consulting firm, the speed of access to talent of a network.
A word from the founder
"Our clients ask us to scope their IT landscape before building, and we wanted to leave them with a living reference repository rather than a fixed deliverable." Farhdine Boutzakhti, CEO of socraft
What we do
- IT strategy and transformation roadmaps
- IT architecture and system landscape organisation
- IT audits and tender scoping
- Digital Factory: turnkey product teams, from design to deployment
- Sourcing qualified tech experts
- Taking AI prototypes to production: code audits, hardening, deployment
- IT organisation, agile at scale, training
Track record
- IT strategy for a cantonal insurance institution (ECAB/KGV): audit of the existing IT landscape, business analysis and construction of the IT roadmap, extended into the overhaul of the core building management system.
- IT strategy for a pension fund (CPPEF): IT architecture, IT department organisation and cybersecurity workstream.
- Tender for the Geneva Conservatory of Music: functional analysis, market study and IT audit ahead of solution selection.
- Infrastructure migrations for Calico Life Sciences: Kubernetes migration and overhaul of a critical NGS pipeline, with ongoing follow-up.
- Agile transformation at SwissBorg and Kudelski: raising team maturity and organising agile at scale.
- Product development for GridWatch: design and delivery of a cloud platform, from UX to technical architecture.
How they use Boldo
- Mapping the existing IT landscape during audit and strategy phases
- Modelling the target architecture and roadmap scenarios
- Mapping data and process flows, and impact analysis ahead of migrations
- Visual reporting to senior management and steering committees
- Handover at project close: the client keeps a living reference repository they maintain themselves
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