Evil Martians was hired by Gusto for Sidekiq at scale
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Gusto runs payroll for 500,000+ businesses on one of the largest Ruby on Rails - The Rails Foundation monoliths. Here's why a team this strong hired Evil Martians for Si…
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Evil Martians
Design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups
- Industry
- Software Development
- Location
- Brooklyn, US
- Company size
- 51–200 employees
About Evil Martians
We transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. Offices in New York, Porto, and Osaka. Clients trust us to be the core technical team behind their startups, delivering all elements of successful product work: user interface design backed by analytics, agile software development, infrastructure administration, and service reliability. We pay extra attention to mentoring, making sure that the practices we bring in are adopted by the internal team before our collaboration is over. Our projects typically span years, not months. See more at https://evilmartians.com/ and check out our blog at https://evilmartians.com/chronicles.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Evil Martians moved from Gatsby to Astro in two weeks, reducing homepage JavaScript by 61%, improving mobile score to 66-90, and page weight to 2.1 MB to 1.1 MB.
Presence & Recognition
Evil Martians interviewed Marc Köhlbrugge, a serial entrepreneur, founder of BetaList and Startup Jobs, and Rails enthusiast, during an interview last year.
Research & Knowledge
Evil Martians published Yuri Mikhin sharing 10 anti-AI slop checks and tools for frontend projects in 2026.
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