About
A small senior shop in Canyon Country, California.
Investment Fidelity Company LLC was founded in 2023 by a programmer who'd already spent two decades shipping software for other people. We build for businesses who need engineers who've seen the failure modes before.
The founder
Investment Fidelity Company is led by Ivan Roganov, a software engineer who has been writing code professionally since 1999 and publishing on it since 2008. Before founding IFC, he served as technical director on systems with seven and eight-figure operating budgets — payments stacks, ERP integrations, and the back-office automations holding them together.
That experience shapes how the company operates. We have seen, repeatedly, what happens when payments architecture is treated as a checkbox. We have rebuilt systems other firms abandoned. We have inherited code from teams that promised "we'll document it later" and never did. The rules in the values section below are not aspirational — they are reactions.
The company is intentionally small. Our founder is the senior engineer on every engagement. When you talk to us, you talk to the people writing the code.
Operating rules
Six things we will not compromise on.
These exist because we have, in past careers, watched each one get violated and watched what happened next. They are non-negotiable.
Senior people only
Every line of code shipped is written or reviewed by an engineer with at least a decade of production experience. We don't sell junior hours dressed up as senior ones.
Take the boring problems seriously
Rate limits, retry logic, idempotency keys, schema migrations, observability, error budgets — the unglamorous half of software is where most of our work lives, and where most failures hide.
Write it down
Every system we ship comes with the architecture diagrams, runbooks, and decision logs we'd want if we were the next team. Knowledge transfer is part of the deliverable, not an afterthought.
Tell you when to stop
If a build doesn't make sense, if the spec is wrong, if the cheaper SaaS already solves it — we say so before we send the invoice. We'd rather lose the engagement than ship something that wastes your money.
Stay narrow
We do payments, NetSuite, backend systems, and the integrations between them. We turn down work outside that. Specialists ship faster and break less.
Long horizons
Our average client engagement is measured in years, not sprints. We design for the system you'll have in 2030, not the one you wish you had today.
We work with a deliberately small number of clients at a time.
If your problem fits the profile of work we do well, the next step is a conversation — no proposal, no deck.
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