1703 Group

Your backend is slowing you down.
We fix that.

We've scaled platforms handling millions of operations and managed €10M+ tech budgets. Now we help growth-stage companies rebuild their backend on Elixir — cutting infrastructure costs in half and shipping 3x faster with smaller teams.

They chose Elixir. You should too.

€10M+ Tech Budgets Managed
Top 20 Elixir Influencer Worldwide
10+ Years Building Scalable Platforms
€10M+ Tech Budgets Managed
Top 20 Elixir Influencer Worldwide
10+ Years Building Scalable Platforms
What We Do

Two Ways to Win

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Build From Scratch

You raised money. You need a product that won't break when you scale.

We've built platforms that handle millions of operations. Now we help funded startups skip the "rebuild everything at Series B" trap by building on Elixir/Phoenix from day one.

What you get: Architecture → Development → Deployment → Handoff to your team.

Let's Talk Architecture
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Rewrite & Migration

Your Rails/Node app worked at 1,000 users. At 100,000 it's falling apart.

We've done this migration — at scale, in production, with zero downtime. We help companies move from legacy stacks to Elixir, typically cutting server costs 30–50% and reducing backend team size from 8–10 to 3–4 engineers.

What you get: Codebase audit → Migration roadmap → Phased execution → Your team trained on Elixir.

Request a Paid Assessment
Results

What Elixir Changes For Your Business

These aren't hypothetical. These are documented results from companies that made the switch.

Bleacher Report

Migrated from Ruby on Rails to Elixir.

Server fleet: 150 → 5 Traffic capacity: 8x increase

Discord

Real-time communication at unprecedented scale.

11M concurrent users 5M events/second

Fresha (ex-Shedul)

Migrated from Rails monolith to Elixir microservices.

Ruby devs retrained in weeks Zero attrition

What I Built

Scaled a European logistics platform to millions of shipments across 30+ countries. Managed €10M+ technology budget and 50+ engineer organization. Built the architecture that the company still runs on today.

Millions of shipments 50+ engineers managed

The pattern is the same every time: fewer servers, smaller teams, lower costs, better uptime.

Process

How an Engagement Works

Typically 1–2 Weeks

Assessment

We audit your current codebase, infrastructure costs, and team structure. You get a document with: what to migrate first, expected savings, timeline, and risks.

Billed per hour. No commitment beyond this.

Varies by Scope

Execution

Our team migrates your highest-impact services first using the strangler pattern — your product stays live, your users notice nothing. You start seeing infrastructure savings from month 2.

Your product stays live throughout.

Ongoing

Handoff & Training

We train your existing developers on Elixir (especially easy for Ruby/Python devs). You own everything. No vendor lock-in. No retainer trap.

You own 100% of the code and knowledge.

Daniil Popov

Daniil Popov

Top 20 Elixir Influencer

About

I spent 10 years building software products, including scaling a major European logistics platform to millions of shipments — managing a €10M+ technology budget and a 50+ engineer organization.

We've seen what happens when companies pick the wrong stack early: endless hiring, exploding AWS bills, and a codebase nobody wants to touch.

I started 1703 Group to fix exactly that. I work with a small, senior team — no juniors, no bench, no overhead. You get the same person on the call and in the code.

Based in Luxembourg. Working across Europe.

FAQ

Common Questions

Get Started

Let's Talk

Book a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no sales script. Tell us what's broken — we'll tell you honestly if Elixir is the right fix, or if it isn't.

Or email directly: [email protected]

Prefer to start smaller? Request a paid assessment — a full audit of your codebase with migration roadmap and ROI projection. Billed per hour. 70% of assessments lead to a full engagement.

Resources

Deep Dives