You are a business owner with a lot on your plate. Right now, your number 1 priority is to find a reliable and experienced PHP developer.

Your PHP code is running in the cloud. Bugs need to be fixed. New features need to be developed. Your previous developer went un-responsive. Left you stranded.

You have at least 5 different pages of advertisements open in the browser tabs. These companies look the same and make the same claims. You don’t know them. It’s hard to trust them based on their slogans.

If you could find the right engineers, you could do amazing things. Hire the wrong engineer, you lose money, you lose time, and you lose opportunity.

I can help you

Mark Mian

My name is Mark Mian and I am the founder and CEO of a company called vteams. My company provides PHP engineers who work for you as your own dedicated team.

I am thankful that you are here and reading this. In return for this opportunity, I promise you that I will present my company in the most straight forward way. You will find no marketing fluff.

In 1993, I started this company in San Diego as a one-man operation. I was the chief programmer.

23 years and countless market bubbles later, we are now a programming company with 550+ engineers working in 5 global development centers. Our business offices are in California, Connecticut and the Netherlands. I live in Carlsbad.

How it works

My engineers work for you as a dedicated virtual team. As long as they are working for you, they ONLY work for you. You hire them on an as-needed basis.

You pay a monthly fee for this service. You can start any time and you can stop any time. There is no long term contract. There are no hidden charges.

vteams come in 2 configurations

Regular vteams

(You manage your developer and your project yourself)

In this configuration, you get a dedicated PHP developer. This person is now part of your team. You can have him write PHP code for any number of projects or features.

In this configuration, you manage all aspects of your developer's work. However, we do provide a Development Manager who regularly oversees your programmer. The Development Manager also performs routine code reviews.

Auto-Pilot vteams

(We manage your project for you)

In this configuration, we setup an experienced Project Manager to work with you directly and he works with your dedicated engineer.

This configuration is especially suitable if you don’t have a lot of time to manage your engineer. Your Project Manager will manage all aspects of managing your developer. This means you spend less time managing your project and more time running your business.

Differences between Regular & Autopilot

Difference Regular vteams Autopilot vteams
Configuration Goal Cheapest Most Convenient
Managing Your Engineer You do it We do it for you
Managing Your Project You do it We do it for you
Business Analyst (Research and Mockups) Extra (you pay hourly) We do it for you
Extra Graphic Design Work Extra (you pay hourly) Included in price
Quality Engineer Extra (you pay hourly) Included in price

Sample Budgets

Self-Managed Team

Developer Experience Proposed Prices
Junior Developer 2+yrs $2200
Mid-Level Developer 3+Yrs $2400
Senior Developer 4+Yrs $2600
Guru 5+Yrs - 8+Yrs $2800-$3200
UI N/A $2400-$2800
Business Analyst N/A $2400-$2800
QA N/A $2400-$2800

Auto-pilot Team

All autopilot teams are inclusive of Graphic Designer, Business Analyst & QA.

Developer Experience Proposed Prices
Junior Developer 2+yrs $2600
Mid-Level Developer 3+Yrs $2800
Senior Developer 4+Yrs $3000
Guru 5+Yrs - 8+Yrs $3500-$4000

Every day with vteams

  • You will talk to your developer every day. Mostly on Skype or Google Hangouts.

  • We will provide you with a Project Management System and an issue tracker.

  • Depending on which time zone you are in, you will talk to your developer once or twice a day. We plan for a few hours of real time overlap.

  • You will get a daily update from your developer and a weekly update from the Development Manager.

  • When you need other services like Graphics Design and UI work, our UI team will jump in and get that work done for you. (If you have a regular vteam, you pay per hour for this service. If you have an Auto Pilot vteam, it is included.)

My engineers and their skills

  • Most of our engineers have Masters Degrees in Computer science. The person you hire will have the right education.

  • We don’t hire freelancers. Every engineer works from a development center as a full time employee. Working from a development center imposes discipline and allows for constant oversight.

  • When we started out, we used to hire people for skill sets with no regard to their personalities. Now we hire for character and train for skills. An engineer with character will never let you down when you need him the most.

Getting Started

We have a simple onboarding process. You call us; or fill out this form and we will call you. We talk about your project needs and then setup a 360 review with our most experienced engineers.

The 360 review is purely technical in nature. Our best engineers look at your system under the hood and discover what kind of engineer (or a team of engineers) will be a good fit for you.

After the review, our team matches your needs to the right engineers in our company. When a positive match is acquired, we send you the resumes of matching engineers.

You get to interview the engineers directly. The monthly rate of each engineer is already stated on each resume. If you like an engineer, you can request us to start your team.

We sign NDAs and a service agreement. We bill you for the first month of service. As soon as the payment is cleared, your guy starts working for you.

Who else is using vteams

At any given moment, we work with 150+ customers in parallel. Our customers range from large corporations to a one-person startup trying to make the next big success.

Working with vteams has been a pleasure. They helped us take an idea and make it a reality. They are very professional, timely and willing to work with you. We have been extremely pleased with our developer in particular and his dedication to getting the work done – and always with a positive attitude. Stephanie Cox, Founder & CEO, The Level Market

Instead of presenting you with more testimonials, I would like to setup a call between you and one of our active customers who are in a similar situation like yourself. You will get a first-hand account of what it is like to own a vteam of your own..

Here is a small sampling of our current and past customers:

Types of projects we have worked on

Compare vteams to others

Since you are in the research phase, you might want to know how my company compares to different companies out there:

Toptal and the 3% myth:

They would like you to believe that they hire the top 3% engineers in the universe. What they fail to mention CLEARLY is that they only hire the top 3% freelancers who applied for a job with Toptal.

In my company, we hire only the 0.7% of all applicants who apply for a job with us. Our selection process is much more rigorous than Toptal.

If Freelancers could deliver reliably and consistently, big companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple would let go of their employees and hire the top 3% freelancers from Toptal.

The faceless body shops from India:

These are large scale body shops who have been in business for many years and they employ thousands of people. Sometimes they fail to disclose that most of their people are actually doing data entry and BPO work. Engineering is not their core strength.

If you have ever received telemarketing calls about software development, the calls come from these body shops. They are ruthless sales machines.

My company is focused on good engineering and nothing else. Compared to these body shops, we are a specialized company with a singular focus. We are like a startup who has the capabilities and resources of a large corporation.

The boutique shops

Sometimes I run across websites of small boutique shops whose developers look like Hollywood models in their B&W pictures. Very inspiring.

But the problem with boutique shops is that their rates are much too high. And their capacity is limited because of their size.

My company used to be a boutique shop when we started out. But with time we have steadily outgrown that phase. There is something to be said about having hundreds of engineers under one roof: The biggest advantage is that there is always someone who has solved a problem that your engineer is trying to solve. There is synergy in the system.

I think you should consider us:

I understand that you have many choices right now. I am thankful again that you have read this page so far. If you feel that you have something in common with us and our mindset, I want you to consider us seriously.

The Next Step

Call us, or fill out the form. We will immediately get back to you. I have a team of amazing individuals who will work with you step by step. If your needs are more technical in nature, please ask for me when you call. Or if you live in Southern California, I can meet you personally.

You can test drive

I am confident in what I am offering you. I encourage you to ask for a free trial period. In this trial period, you will select your engineer and he/she will work for you for free. The trial period lasts two weeks. This is enough to get you a first-hand experience.

Let’s get you started:

Call us, or fill in this form so that we can call you. You have nothing to lose. I cannot guarantee that you will select my company to work for you. But I can guarantee that we are a hard working group of individuals who believe that we must keep our promises.

If you give us a chance to work for you, I promise that my team and I will not let you down.

Sincerely,
Mark Mian
Founder and CEO.