I founded Foxbox Digital, an award-winning digital product agency, because I truly believe I can help companies build amazing products.As I look back on my startup and enterprise career, it was mainly focused on one thing: building and launching great digital products. I’m an entrepreneur and engineer at heart, so starting Foxbox Digital was a natural progression for me.Since our founding in 2018, we’ve helped high-growth companies and Fortune 500s build digital experiences that make a lasting impact.Foxbox ranked twice on the *INC 5000* in 2022 (#121) and 2023 (#1198) as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Crain’s Chicago named Rob a ** NOTABLE LGBTQ EXECUTIVE ** in 2021.We believe in doing things the "Foxbox Way." The Foxbox Way serves as a framework for our culture and values. Every single piece of code we write, every interaction we have with our clients, and how we communicate with each other are all part of the Foxbox Way.Prior to starting Foxbox Digital I helped Fortune 500 clients, including Pfizer, USPS, and Morgan Stanley build and scale enterprise apps, with my team at Avanade. I was the CTO of Beyond Diet and implemented technology that scaled to over 350k+ customers, and was the CTO and Co-Founder of Detective (detective.io), a venture-backed intelligence platform that amassed 200k+ users.Here are a few quotes from clients that are a testament to how we work.“Foxbox operated as a startup within our large organization. They moved quickly, purposefully, and pushed the boundaries of how we deliver software. I highly recommend them.” - CTO, Fortune 50 Healthcare Organization“Foxbox Digital’s deep technical knowledge of React Native helped us move quickly through technical roadblocks. In early stages of the development, they guided us through architecture decision and foresaw many of the issues we would run into with our current development setup. If you’re looking for React Native developers, I can’t recommend them enough.” - Matt Pulley, CTO Home Chef (#3 on Inc. 5000, acquired by Kroger)Prior to starting Foxbox, I helped Fortune 500 clients build and scale enterprise applications using Agile and was a two-time CTO of high-growth Chicago startups.Foxbox is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic.P.S. Foxbox is hiring. Take a look at foxbox.com/jobs for open positions.
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Founder & CeoFoxbox Digital Mar 2018 - PresentChicago, Illinois, UsWe build digital products companies and their customers can't live without. We help companies create value for their customers by helping them conceptualize, build from scratch, and enhance their existing digital products. In doing so, we help our clients transform the way they develop and deliver software to their clients by embracing what we call the Foxbox Way. It's about building with purpose by solving real, not hypothetical problems. Thinking in terms of teams, not individuals. Focusing on how we can help our clients see around corners. Integrating seamlessly into our clients' team structures, adapting to their needs, requirements, and capabilities. Guided at all times by the belief that it's critical to Move Purposely.95% of our projects get extended to phase 2, and our clients continue to enjoy working with our highly-integrated and disciplined agile product development teams as a dedicated extension of their technology team. Our flexible, product delivery teams are a collection of product, engineering, QA, and design experts who have deep experience and knowledge in individual subjects with a wide understanding of related domains.You can find out more about our culture and how we do things at foxbox.com/culture. -
Co-FounderChicago Tech Leaders May 2015 - PresentChicago, Il, UsI co-founded Chicago Tech Leaders because I was in need of connecting with other like-minded CTOs who were also part of growing businesses. Since the creation of the group, we've grown to 75+ experienced tech leaders who continue to share their experiences and knowledge via our active meetups and Slack discussions.We've taken ski trips together and formed trusted bonds that have helped us all grow our businesses and careers. -
Cto & Co-FounderDetective Jul 2013 - Dec 2017Chicago, Il, UsDetective by Charlie is the Intelligence Platform for Sellers. Everyday, 1000s of sellers use our prospect research to win the trust of any executive they call.We're a small, focused team of developers, building Detective with the latest development practices. We're test-focused, practice continuous delivery, and code with agility. We've built Detective with Ruby on Rails, backed by MongoDB and Redis, and hosted on an elastic server farm. -
CtoBeyond Diet Apr 2010 - May 2012Beyond Diet is a diet and nutrition company that has helped over 350k people lose weight and become healthier. I was the CTO and built out the technology supporting this healthy community, which supported over 10M unique visitors in peak months. Our company grew to 25 employees in two years.- Formed and led the six-person development team using Agile methodology- Built flagship interactive community site Beyond Diet (beyonddiet.com) with team to support 300k customers in the US and Germany- Designed fault-tolerant cloud server farm to handle 10M unique users in peak month and over 500TB data transferred using 10-20 virtual servers- Designed and built custom payment platform (processed $750k in sales), realtime analytics (processing millions of hits per day), affiliate tracking & reporting systems with team- Implemented Agile project methodology to deliver fast and iterative project results to business- Implemented Git branching strategy to support immediate and long-term development tasks- Designed semi-automated deployment process from build server with one-click rollback capabilities- Implemented continuous integration to compile and test code (unit and Watir functional testing) as it is committed to improve software stability and confidence in new releases- Worked with designers to ensure clean user experience on all projects- Launched and grew Facebook fan page to 50k likes- Worked with SEO firm to build organic traffic to Beyond Diet
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Senior ConsultantAvanade Inc. Jun 2005 - Mar 2010Seattle, Washington, UsAvanade provides enterprise business technology solutions that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. I provided technology consulting services to mid and large-size companies, working on-site with mixed teams of developers from both Avanade and the client.Click below to see details of my experience at Pfizer, USPS, Daylight Forensic, and Morgan Stanley.
Rob Volk Education Details
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Stevens Institute Of TechnologyComputer Science
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Rob Volk attended Stevens Institute Of Technology.
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