I believe that mission-driven groups—universities, museums, non-profits, foundations, and others—should have access to high quality, beautifully designed software that’s a pleasure to use.About fifteen years ago, I was just getting started on my dissertation on John Milton for my Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. I’d incorporated technology into my teaching for many years, and had been working as an instructional technology fellow. It turned out I enjoyed working with tech a little bit more than I enjoyed doing research in the humanities, so I decided to found Cast Iron Coding. It took some years to finish the Ph.D. while I was starting the company and raising a daughter, but I managed!Over the past fifteen years, I’ve carefully and deliberately grown Cast Iron into a skilled team of developers and designers who care deeply about building amazing sites and applications for our clients. We’ve worked for giant enterprise companies and small non-profits, and and we’ve designed and built web products on all kinds of stacks and languages.These past few years, we’ve focused on the publishing industry, and open access publishing in particular. My team and I built Manifold Scholarship, an open source platform for OA monographs. We also built a web delivery platform under the Next Generation Library Publishing grant, which aims to offer a combined IR and journal publishing platform. Along the way we’ve built digital experiences for museums, scholars, artists, universities, government agencies, food banks, foundations, publishers, galleries, libraries and more.