About Us

so·journ (so′jûrn') visit, vacation, rest, stop

soft·ware (sôft′wâr') The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of computer hardware and direct its operation.

softjourn (sôft′jûrn') To provide offshore outsourced Professional Services to develop the programs, routines, and symbolic languages that clients require worldwide.

Softjourn, Inc. is an international custom software engineering and IT outsourcing company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. The company has software development and operations centers in Ukraine since 2005 and Poland since 2015. Some of the areas it specializes in are fintech, ticketing and media industries.

History

Softjourn Inc. was founded in 2001 by Americans Jeff Kreuser and Emmy Gengler, the current CEO, in Silicon Valley. A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gengler had spent more than a decade working in the former Soviet Union, including several years as the President and CEO of a systems integration firm in Kyiv, Ukraine, and as treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

Initially, the company worked with a network of software development partners situated in different parts of Ukraine. Each partner company had a different area of expertise and concentration, either technical or business applications in industries such as healthcare and financial services. By 2005, Gengler and Kreuser decided it was time to collaborate more permanently with two new partners, Serhiy Fitsak and Bohdan Mykhailovych, both of whom were working with a Ukrainian software house providing banking solutions. That year, Softjourn opened its own office in Ivano-Frankivsk, where Fitsak and Mykhailovych were located.

By 2013, Softjourn had 50 in-house programmers and a total staff of 77. As of the end of 2017, the company has grown to over 160 employees. Its main software development team is located at its Ivano-Frankivsk office. In 2015, Softjourn opened a branch office in Wroclaw, Poland.

Over the years, Softjourn developed particular expertise in a number of areas, including ticketing and fintech.

Community Initiatives

The city of Ivano-Frankivsk launched a program called ‘Teple misto’, meaning ‘Warm City,’ whose goal was to support initiatives from the community, especially environmental and educational ones.  Softjourn immediately became one of the general partners of this initiative, which has led to a new visual identity for the city, a project to develop cycling as a form of transport, and a ‘Warm IT’ initiative. Softjourn coordinates the Warm IT project, which has now set up an IT cluster in the city.

The most important members of our organization - our clients

Our mission is to make global software development work! Communication! It’s what our customers love about us. It’s what you will love about working with us. You won’t have to tell us what to do every step of the way; our technical expertise, communication processes, and experience make us your partner rather than just coders.

Your success is our Success!

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