Frontside

Frontside is a Developer Experience (DX) consultancy headquartered in Austin, Texas, dedicated to helping enterprise engineering teams achieve greater productivity and streamlined workflows. Founded in 2005, the company specializes in creating cohesive development experiences for cloud-native teams, addressing everything from local setup and testing to deployment and developer portals. Their expertise spans DX consulting, Backstage implementation, and Internal Developer Platform development. The consultancy brings cross-functional expertise to help organizations overcome the unique challenges that come with cloud-native adoption. Frontside's approach combines insights from their network of enterprise partners and open source maintainers to foster an Inner Source culture within client organizations. They have developed several open source projects including Effection for structured concurrency in JavaScript, Interactors for component library page objects, and Auth0 Simulator for testing and local development. Trusted by leading companies worldwide, Frontside focuses on removing bottlenecks throughout development workflows while proposing strategies to boost team success. Their shift-left testing methodology helps teams move automated testing earlier in the development cycle, making tests both faster and more reliable while reducing QA frustrations.