# UKAD — Umbraco Optimizely and Azure Solution Partner

> UKAD is a nearshore software engineering company offering staff augmentation, dedicated teams and complete project delivery. Founded in 2005, it combines European engineering teams with .NET, Azure, Umbraco and Optimizely expertise to modernize business software, ecommerce platforms and mobile applications for customers in Europe and the United States.

- **Founded:** 2005
- **Headquarters:** Kirkland, United States
- **Founders:** Denys Maksymenko (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Staff augmentation, Dedicated engineering teams, Software outsourcing, .NET and cloud development, CMS and ecommerce engineering
- **Notable:** UKAD reports 300+ engineers, 90% of new projects through recommendations and 95% client retention., Umbraco’s East Capital case study reports 65% lower licensing and hosting costs, 48% faster publishing and a fourfold reduction in IT maintenance., UKAD’s AJ Produkter case study reports 2.5-fold growth in online sales following modernization across a business operating in 19 European countries.

## Products & services

- **Staff augmentation** — Individual specialists join a client-managed engineering team.
- **Dedicated engineering teams** — Cross-functional teams support continuing product development with shared delivery responsibility.
- **Software outsourcing** — UKAD manages delivery of a complete software project, including project management and engineering.
- **.NET and cloud development** — Custom applications, legacy modernization, Azure and AWS infrastructure, migration and DevOps.
- **CMS and ecommerce engineering** — Umbraco and Optimizely implementations, multi-site architecture, headless content and product-information integrations.
- **Mobile development** — Cross-platform applications using React Native and .NET MAUI.
- **AI and data solutions** — LLM assistants, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow automation and data dashboards.
- **Quality assurance, design and maintenance** — Manual and automated testing, UX/UI work, upgrades and ongoing operational support.

## Achievements

- UKAD reports 300+ engineers, 90% of new projects through recommendations and 95% client retention.
- Umbraco’s East Capital case study reports 65% lower licensing and hosting costs, 48% faster publishing and a fourfold reduction in IT maintenance.
- UKAD’s AJ Produkter case study reports 2.5-fold growth in online sales following modernization across a business operating in 19 European countries.
- Announced ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification on May 20, 2025 after a year of preparation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — UKAD’s public GitHub organization lists a September 3 update to its timetracker-desktop-client repository.
- **2025-05** — Announced ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
- **2025-02** — Announced Umbraco Silver partnership and Microsoft Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation designation.

## Links

- Website: https://ukad-group.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukad/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/UKAD_Group
- GitHub: https://github.com/ukad-group
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukad_group/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukadgroup

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Last updated: 2026-10-23