About Hounder

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Our Story

In 2016, we noticed a large gap in the market. All too often, organizations are forced to pay over-promising agencies for poor design, poor code, and system builds rife with scalability issues and clunky automation. Bad systems implementations lead to terrible web experiences, plaguing companies to constantly stumble.

We believe in building unique, meaningful, and game-changing digital products. We help our partners' stories shine through amazing sites and creative communications, and our team of talented designers, developers, and marketing specialists have years of experience to take each project to the next level.

Since Hounder started we have:

  • Touched over 1.2 billion unique visitor experiences

  • Lead web design, development, and marketing for several of the Forbes Top 100 companies.

  • Designed and implemented over 150 enterprise websites and marketing systems across 22 countries and in 36 languages

  • Enabled B2B companies to create Personalized site experiences for their customers with an average of 32% increase in conversions.

  • Helped increase e-commerce site revenues by an average of 40%

Along the way we've had the honor to be nominated for multiple awards.

We work hard

we fun harder

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Who we are

Hounder is an award-winning team of web developers specializing in custom web design and enterprise content management system (CMS) implementations for high-profile companies. We practice a concentrated and intimate approach to how we work with clients, which we accomplish by accepting only a few projects at a time—done to ensure that our time together is made of the quality you deserve.

We are 100% US-Based and 200% personality. We have offices that stretch from sea to shining sea, but we work as close as family. With us you’ll get much more than just deadlines and dead-pans, we’ll have a blast together and you’ll start looking forward to those Hounder calls on your calendar.

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Josh Northcott

CTO & Co-founder

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Justin Hough

CDO & Co-founder

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Bryan Stifle

CCO

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Hayden Baillio

CMO

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Bettina Sowe

Project Manager

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Kindra Ting

QA Engineer

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Joseph Esquibel

Sr Software Developer

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Rashad Naime

Software Engineer

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Austin Amento

Software Engineer

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Lucas Wilkerson

Junior Software Engineer

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Joey Michael Domingo

Digital Marketing Lead

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Cassidy Donohue

Content Marketing Lead

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Chloe Le

Digital Marketing Specialist

Why we exist

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To be exceptional

Working smart and working hard is just part of the equation. With each element designed, code written, or strategy documented, we're driven by one metric, our client's success.

 


 

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To provide relentless care

  • Our heart is with our team, our products, and our clients.
  • We truly are dedicated to seeing our clients and partners successful.
  • We won't stop until that happens.
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To be real

  • Speak honestly, be open, transparent, and natural.
  • This is who we are, listeners and then doers.
  • We're a free-thinking, fun loving shop and eager to embrace new challenges together.
 


 

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To be family

We're truly a family who works together and has fun together. We believe it's about doing what you love alongside the people you respect and enjoy being around.

 

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