Fortifier

Founded in 2013 in Kharkiv by Senior Software Engineer and IT Team Leader Alex Gayduk, Fortifier built its early practice around replacing legacy systems and extending client development departments through outsourcing. In 2018, the company redirected its focus toward the fast-growing InsurTech market, applying its engineering background to insurance software projects that require analyzing a client's existing challenges before proposing a workable alternative.

The firm's services span application development, systems integration, and product discovery through MVP builds, paired with maintenance and support once systems go live. A dedicated testing practice covers manual and functional testing, automated testing, performance and load testing, and security testing, reflecting an emphasis on verifying systems before and after release rather than just shipping code. Work is guided by what the company calls its Reliability Standard, a set of internal quality expectations meant to keep delivery timelines short without sacrificing solution quality.

Risk management and scalable software architecture are treated as core disciplines rather than add-ons, particularly relevant for insurance clients whose systems must handle regulatory and operational complexity. One concrete outcome cited is a prototype Fortifier built that earned company approval to advance to the funding stage, illustrating how the discovery and MVP process is meant to de-risk early-stage product decisions. For companies weighing whether to modernize an aging system or bring in outside engineering capacity, this combination of legacy analysis, IT strategy input, and hands-on build-and-test capability forms the basis of Fortifier's offer.