About Us

Technology businesses face tremendous pressure to innovate quickly and deliver efficiently. You have ever-increasing demand and must manage a high degree of technology and process complexity to enable your business to respond with speed, agility, and reliability.

At FifthVantage, we help our clients modernize, innovate, and grow by implementing strategies, technologies, and processes that reduce time to market and create speed, agility, and reliability in your software-driven business.

We help our clients’ companies benefit from massive market changes in Digital Transformation, such as edge computing, the Internet of Things, AWS cloud-native technology, Big Data, Machine Learning, and more.

WHAT WE’VE HELPED OUR CLIENTS ACHIEVE

  • 100% application availability in just a few months
  • Transformed on-premise software to a multi-tenant SaaS delivery model in less than 12 months
  • Implemented optimal AWS Cloud Services in 30% less time
  • Created an API strategy & design in 40% less time
  • Redesigned engineering processes to deliver up to 3x more output from existing technical teams
  • Improved streaming analytics capabilities, APIs, and external security model in 50% less time
  • Successful acquisitions of $10 Million to $1.2 Billion

Our Services

Our team at FifthVantage has over 30 years of industry experience, including cloud computing, SaaS applications, infrastructure solutions, and e-commerce at the enterprise, mid-market, and startup levels.

We’re former software executives from Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace. We’ve created new software products and scaled them to billions of dollars in revenue. We’ve modernized and grown software products for large successful exits. We’ve performed the technical due diligence to acquire software companies ranging from 10s of millions to billions of dollars.

We have the knowledge, skills, and experience to help you get where you want to go.

YOU’VE GOT QUESTIONS. WE’VE GOT ANSWERS.

Here are just some of the questions we can help you with while building your unique roadmap:

  • What technology investments do we need to make to achieve double or triple-digit scalability reliably?
  • What technology and process changes should we make to create speed, agility, and reliability in our software delivery and avoid costly mistakes?
  • How can we realize 25%+ faster time-to-market, higher value, and lower costs within our product ecosystem?
  • How can we efficiently transform our on-premise application to a multi-tenant SaaS solution utilizing the benefits of Amazon Web Services?
  • When considering a technology or product acquisition, what specific technical capabilities and people skills do we need to assess that will complement our existing products and teams?

With our mission as innovation enablers, we have a playbook of what works and achieves excellent results. We ask the right questions, advise on avoiding pitfalls, and share our global technical expertise.

We’re a team of strategists and engineers that can provide you with the expertise needed to overcome any challenges. We operate globally in order to reach resilient outcomes with a rapid response for your business.

We know that digital transformation can truly revolutionize the outlook and capabilities of any business.  We’ve done it.  We’ve seen it.  And we’re here to help our clients achieve it. Ready to join one of the top 50 technology leaders in the world? Book your consultation to transform your business today!

MEET MATT DOMO

Matt Domo

MEET MATT DOMO

Matt is an accomplished technology executive with over 30 years of experience in cloud computing, SAAS applications, infrastructure solutions, and e-commerce at the enterprise, mid-market, and startup level. As one of the founders of Amazon Web Services, he’s a pioneer in the cloud computing space. He has created nine cutting-edge cloud products and seven e-commerce website solutions that generated over $2 billion in revenue for Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace.

As a business leader, Matt is a visionary. He can decipher core components of a complex problem to deliver a compelling, impactful solution. He places a premium on building trust with his business partners. With a customer-centric focus, Matt and FifthVantage are committed to providing innovative solutions and action plans that outpace competitors.

Matt is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years of experience in cloud computing, SAAS applications, infrastructure solutions, and e-commerce at the enterprise, mid-market, and startup level. As one of the founders of Amazon Web Services, he’s a pioneer in the cloud computing space. He has created nine cutting-edge cloud products and seven e-commerce website solutions that generated over $2 billion in revenue for Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace.

As a business leader, Matt is a visionary. He can decipher core components of a complex problem to deliver a compelling, impactful solution. He places a premium on building trust with his business partners. With a customer-centric focus, Matt and FifthVantage are committed to providing innovative solutions and action plans that outpace competitors.

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WORLD-CLASS PARTNERS

These leaders have built world-class products from the ground up for Microsoft, Amazon, and others using our playbook, and can help you to avoid pitfalls and optimize your team and software technology for success.

Jamie Marra

Partner

Background

History of interpreting and translating technology vision into multi-year strategies and architectural/development plans that support B2B and B2C software companies in scaling operations and attaining exponential growth. Known for spearheading large-scale software projects that drive significant change and high-growth turnarounds within Fortune-1000 companies, such as Amazon and Microsoft.

 

Track record of leading software development life cycle (SDLC) with success in driving team empowerment, building cross-functional collaboration and improving the development environment by bringing Agile transformation and implementing DevOps methods. Adept at visualizing and translating data sets and employing predictive data science models to provide actionable insights and analytics that empower business decision-making. Successful in managing global enterprise systems, cloud based infrastructures (SaaS, PaaS, laaS), networking/e-commerce platforms, and data science technologies. Strong problem-solver and critical thinker with strong business acumen and expertise in building teams (of 250+) and managing MMS budgets to steer transformative technology initiatives within fast-paced environments.

John Rossman

Partner

Former Amazon Executive
Responsible for the launching and scaling the merchant integration team and played a key role in launching and scaling the Amazon marketplace business, which is now over 50% of all units sold at Amazon.com. Also responsible for the enterprise services business with responsibilities for Toys R Us, Target.com, NBA.com and other great brands.

 

Media Analyst
Sought after expert commentary regarding Amazon as interviewed by New York Times, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg BBC, Geekwire and many others.

 

Author
Author of Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 ideas to Become a Digital Leader Published by McGraw Hill. Order your copy today at Amazon HERE Author of The Amazon Way on loT: 10 Principles for Every Leader from the World’s Leading Internet of Things Strategies. This is a must-read for business people wanting to understand how connected devices could impact their business and industry and who need to build a strategy and culture for lot. Author of The Amazon Way: Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles In The Amazon Way, John introduces readers to the unique corporate culture of the world’s largest Internet retailer, with a focus on the fourteen leadership principles that have guided and shaped its decisions and its distinctive leadership culture-as only an insider could do.

WE ARE A CLIENT-CENTRIC CONSULTING FIRM

WE ARE A CLIENT-CENTRIC CONSULTING FIRM

We are passionate about solving real-world technology problems with creative, innovative strategies and plans that work. Our clients are ambitious organizations who want answers to their challenges. We’re committed to helping them find new ways of doing so through thoughtful consulting services tailored to every organization’s needs!

What matters most to us is what matters most to you, so we cultivate powerful relationships by providing solutions and advice unique to each client.

FifthVantage can make an instant impact for your business.

OUR WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

HEAR IT FROM
OUR CLIENTS

I would definitely recommend FifthVantage to my fellow CTOs in the YC community and the StartX community.

Calvin Usiri

CTO, Ramani

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FifthVantage worked with our technical leads to develop a set of recommendations including a target architecture and migration steps.

Dean Teffer, PhD

IronNet VP of Detection & Analytics

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Transform Your Business Today

FifthVantage will compound your existing technology capabilities with upgraded digital skills and help you achieve accelerated innovation and growth.