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There are many brilliant ideas floating around. Bringing them to life is the difficult part.
Our mission is to help your ideas materialize and literally take off into successful businesses.

We specialize in web applications elegantly written and tested in Ruby on Rails and iOS apps.

Take Off Labs engineers:
  • have Microsoft, Google, Apple, CMU on their resumes
  • lived in the US, Germany, Romania and Switzerland
  • are now developing software from Romania
  • won medals in international algorithmic competitions
  • constantly check emails and Skype
  • never miss a deadline
  • are always early for meetings
 Take Off Labs technologies:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Objective C
  • Mac OS X
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • CoffeeScript & SASS
  • RSpec, Capybara, Selenium

Still not convinced we are the best? Just give us a call or write us a quick note.
+40 766 578 539 ~ Email: contact@takeofflabs.com

Interested in working with Take Off Labs? Get in touch!

Our Clients

GolfTripGenius Tafel3 Idefi
LaunchAStartup.com GolfLeagueGenius.com GolfLeagueGenius.com
Bobby Mukherjee (Loka.com), Mountain View, California
Take Off Labs continues to be a dream team to partner with. My offices are a stone's throw from Facebook and Google, and there's great talent available locally. However, I prefer to work with the good folks at Take Off Labs. Their work ethic and quality are top notch, and I continue to work with them on my most complex technical projects. They have my highest recommendation and respect.
Jonathan 'Jay' Soriano (LaunchAStartup.com), Las Vegas, Nevada
I've worked with developers before but they can't compare to Alex and Take Off Labs. They go beyond the job description, make suggestions, are available around the clock and their communication is perfect. They work within my budget and deadlines. My vision has been delivered as expected and I will work with them in the future, and I recommend the same for anyone reading this review. If you're evaluating this application and you're worried about price, because I know there are other "developers" charging $8/hr, just realize that I bet Take Off Labs will save you time and money in the long run.
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Our Partners & News

Heroku

We are an official Herkou partner and we are using their services to host all the apps we develop. It is the fastest and easiest way to push product updates and our engineers focus only on what makes your application special. Serving, monitoring and scaling your product application is as easy as dragging a slider.

Babes-Bolyai University

Our mission is to support the brightest computer scientists in Romania. Founded in 1581 and with more than 50,000 students, Babes-Bolyai University is the oldest and one of the most renowned universities in Romania. We are always interested in sponsoring events and hiring the brightest minds either for internship or full time positions.

Handicap Server

We are very happy to announce the launch of our very first software as a service product, HandicapServer.com. Our aim is to take the Math out of the putter's way and allow golfers to focus on what matters to them - the game and how well they perform. Therefore, we are building a library of computation methods for a golfer's handicap index.

Heroku Ubb Handicapserver
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Our Engineers

Alex Tandrau

Flavia Grosan
Alex Tandrau

Alex gained industry experience at top software companies, Microsoft and Google. In the technology start-up scene, Alex was Chief Technical Officer (’09 to ’10) of 123LinkIt.com (acquired by NetLine) and Senior Software Engineer at GolfTripGenius.com. He got his Bachelor in Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.

Alex lives in Switzerland, but is originally from Romania. He competed in various national and international computer science competitions. He is the recipient of the Bronze Medal – Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2008, a Google CodeJam semi-finalist and a TopCoder finalist.
Flavia Grosan

Flavia spent summers interning for Microsoft and various other German research institutes before meeting the co-founder, Alex. She also worked as Senior Software Engineer at GolfTripGenius.com. Flavia graduated from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (and Electrical Engineering). While enjoying a semester abroad at Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA, she was awarded Apple Women in Engineering Scholarship. In 2012 she received Google Anita Borg Scholarship .

When not committing code, Flavia enjoys blogging and playing tennis.

Dan Grosan

Vlad Covaliov
Dan Grosan

Dan is the Senior Software Engineer at Take Off Labs bringing along the experience of more than 20 years of programming large systems. He started his career as Systems Engineer in a Romanian large aluminium plant, then moved on in the telecom business at Romtelecom, the largest Romanian telecom services provider and then at Atlas Telecom, a privately held telecom company, where he lead the billing systems development team. He then combined his skills in large billing software systems with web development by joining Lechpol, a company operating in the electronics shopping domain.

He’s as tall as the latest Ruby version (using European metric system) and plays basketball regularly.
Vlad Covaliov

Vlad writes code since 6th grade and now he studies Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Even from highschool he realized that web programming is what he would love to learn and what would fit him the best.

In his spare time, Vlad is interested in finance, reading and swimming, which he practices weekly.

Adrian Tandrau

Claudiu Silaghi
Adrian Tandrau

Adrian is a CS student from Cluj Napoca, Romania. He was always passionate about web development and is sharping up his skills at Take Off Labs.

Outside work and school, you’ll find him driving, taking photos or playing with his Husky – Jack.
Claudiu Silaghi

After getting his Bachelor in Computer Science at University of Oradea, Romania, Claudiu worked at Velnet UK Ltd, a UK based internet services provider company as a web programmer in several projects, team leader for the customer support, testing and development of the company’s custom built shopping cart software. He then moved to Lechpol specializing in web development for the company’s websites and integration with its billing software.
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