Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | Company Culture thrives at WorkTango. Each day begins with the Daily Tango, where the team aligns, shares their progress from the previous day and their focus for the current day. We include a Daily Recognition moment to say thank you to our passionate employees. On Friday evenings, the team enjoys a Friday Social, getting to know each other and celebrating work well done.

Best Tech Work Culture (Chicago) | We foster a creative and free thinking, work hard/play hard environment by providing for employee wellbeing. As a mission-driven culture, we give back through a lot of community events like food drives and volunteer work. On a weekly basis, employees have access to holistic benefits like healthy organic food, yoga, massages and personal trainers.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | Fleetsmith was founded by a team of former IT admins who were frustrated by the IT management solutions that already existed on the market. Using powerful automation and user-focused product design chops they honed at companies like Dropbox and Fandom, they’ve built a management system that makes it easy for anyone to ensure their entire fleet of devices is properly managed, secure, and compliant.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) |Founded as a resource to help working mothers achieve work-life balance, Zūm was born out of an idea for better, more equitable future. Zūm’s CEO and co-founder, Ritu Narayan, is a working mother herself and faced a choice after moving to Silicon Valley: she juggled caring for her family and working a demanding career managing $1billion+ of eCommerce at eBay. Rather than sacrifice quality work or family time, Ritu founded a company to solve a major childcare issue parents face: safe, reliable transportation. Together, Ritu and her employees are on a mission to improve the lives of busy working moms through social innovation, transportation expertise and technology. Not only are they helping women (and men, too) safely and efficiently get their children from various places throughout the day, they are empowering parents to achieve their professional and personal goals while creating a wonderful life for their families. Not only does Zūm’s leadership team and employees have one foot in the future, but the company also employs forward-thinking drivers, or Zūmers. It’s creating jobs for parents and other professionals, like teachers, nurses, etc., who want a flexible schedule and to earn extra income. Ritu’s mission-based company is helping parents pursue their passions while keeping their kids engaged and is also offering unique and flexible career opportunities for people around the country. Finally, the service inspires a sense of independence for the children who use it, and helps them to pursue extracurricular opportunities that may have not been previously available due to logistics. In effect, Zūm is fostering the next generation of forward-thinking leaders as well.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) |Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) fosters growth and learning, with a culture centered around helping patients and driving forth patient outcomes. HRS creates both technical creativity and innovation through dedicated hours set aside for creation and development. Employees are encouraged to identify and tackle either uncharted areas they believe they could make a real impact. Breaking outside of the traditional roadmap, HRS employees build, create and develop new service lines, chart out new product features, and lay the pavement for the advancement of their organization both from a cultural and technological standpoint.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | TripActions is a diverse recruiting team, and are proud of diversity statistics. Individual Contributors - Male 57% Female 43% and Management - Male 53% Female 47%. They have won a variety of diversity awards - Comparably’s “Most Diverse” and #3 “Best Company to Work” 2018 - based on surveys of their employees and rate 4.7/5 rating on Glassdoor.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | Sauce Labs believes that diversity and inclusion are central to a performant and healthy organizational culture. We welcome differences and embrace individuality. We are committed to a culture that not only allows our team members to be who they are, but one that also celebrates them.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | Sauce Labs believes that diversity and inclusion are central to a performant and healthy organizational culture. They welcome differences and embrace individuality. They are committed to a culture that not only allows their team members to be who they are, but one that also celebrates them.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | We’re serious about pursuing excellence and owning the results of everything we do. We value continuous innovation and collaboration, and believe in empowering our people to build and drive their own careers.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Talla employees have the opportunity to help change how businesses engage with their employees. The best ideas come from individuals who feel challenged and free to stretch their creative muscles.

Best Tech Work Culture (Chicago) | At Arity, we give people a great tech work culture that’s more than Ping-Pong, a modern office space and a relaxed dress code – we empower people to pursue work they find personally and professionally fulfilling as they pioneer solutions that work toward a shared mission of making personal transportation – and people’s lives – better.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | Catalant is pioneering the future of work by creating technology that provides companies with access to the right talent, at the right time, regardless of whether that talent is a full-time employee, alumni, retiree or an external knowledge worker.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Gina's greatest strength as Chief of Product for Ovia Health is that she knows the women and families who use our apps better than anyone. When Ovia launched its first app, Ovia Fertility, Gina spent countless hours and days interviewing women who were pregnant or trying to conceive. Women in her life, women in her friends' lives, women who were brave enough to answer a Craigslist ad: if you were pregnant or trying to get pregnant in the Greater Boston Area at that time, chances are, you talked to Gina. This is because the business of women's health is so personal to her: she cares deeply about supporting women and families at home, in the workplace, and beyond. She's a user of Ovia's three apps herself, using Ovia Fertility, Ovia Pregnancy, and Ovia Parenting on her own path to parenthood with her two daughters, Hazel and Quentin.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Diverse hiring starts with a diverse team, moreover, a diverse hiring team. With 140 employees, 35 nationalities and 40% of female employees, we are in a good position to ensure diversity. At SpotMe, we always make sure candidates go through a panel of interviewers and reviewers to make sure hiring biases are totally eliminated. We highly value diverse backgrounds, education, and experiences. Most of our candidates have a background in software development, hospitality and events, but we have been casting a wider net, tapping into talented individuals with experiences in professional services, legal and marketing as well.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | DarwinAI is one of the leading Artificial Intelligence startups in Canada. Founded by leading academics at the University of Waterloo, our technology leverages AI itself to generate highly optimized deep neural networks without sacrificing functional accuracy. Moreover, this IP enables ‘explainable’ deep learning – the ability to understand why a neural network reaches the conclusions it does (critical in highly regulated industries).

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | Whereoware employees are “geek chic” – combining nerd smarts and style into every design, development, and marketing project. It’s a fitting tagline. We’re playful and creative, and we get killer results. Being geek chic is simply celebrating whatever weird and wonderful hobbies, talents, and experiences make each employee unique. We’ve incorporated this mindset into our brand, company culture, and marketing initiatives.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | At Upside, not only do we hire creative, out of the box, forward thinking tech teams, we work hard every day to continue to make Upside a best place to work. We have flexible work arraignments. We value transparency and open communication. And we even have a "no-jerk" policy. We've created a travel-booking tool with a 24/7 concierge service for the DIY business traveler. We're looking to disrupt the business travel space by developing a tool specifically for this underserved market. And we're well on our way to do so!

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | RhinoDox is a cloud-based, end-to-end Intelligent Content Management platform for Manufacturing companies aimed at helping front-and-mid-office teams move content into a digital world so that it is safely stored, easily found and quickly integrated into their daily processes. We focus on reducing the time these teams spend searching for and finding documents so they can spend more time growing revenue.

Best Tech Manager (NYC) | Jay Signorello lives out StreetEasy’s core values every day. Jay leads engineering for all New York brands including StreetEasy, Naked Apartments and Out East as the Vice President of Engineering. As the group leader on a team of 50+ employees, Jay is a great example of the StreetEasy core value “ZG is a Team Sport.” He recognizes that everyone has a role and together we are stronger and can accomplish more than we ever could as individuals.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | AuditBoard is the first platform built upon the latest web technology and integrated with leading platforms like Microsoft Power BI, LucidChart, and the Microsoft Office Suite. The platform is powerful, intuitive, and easy to use, which is why companies such as Lululemon, Intel, Express Scripts, Lionsgate, Activision, Tripadvisor, and Pandora have adopted our solutions, and also why companies have continued to switch off other platforms.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | As our recruiting leader I encourage my team of 5 recruiters to pay special attention to diverse candidates and minorities. We are a diverse recruiting team ourselves, and are proud of diversity statistics. Individual Contributors - Male 57% Female 43% and Management - Male 53% Female 47% We have won awards - Comparably’s “Most Diverse” and #3 “Best Company to Work” 2018 - based on surveys of our employees. 4.7/5 rating on Glassdoor.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Yummi has taken an innovative approach to creating a food-centric platform that let foodies do it all in one user-friendly interface. It allows users to organize, remember and share their food experiences. They aim to build the next-generation food platform where users can find and access reliable and more trusted information.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | ProxyPics is the first of its kind technology in the world of real estate. Users are allowed to request a photo of a specific location, for other users to complete, for a small fee. Think of it as Uber for photos. It is not only revolutionizing the world of real estate, but people’s personal lives as well.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | Our diversity is the foundation for a dynamic company culture that brings creativity and rigor to every new challenge, and we have worked to develop equality of opportunity through our cultural foundations and organizational structure.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | Creating a diverse workplace is multifaceted. We’ve implemented ways to encourage diversity of thought & empower team members to come up with alternative ways of doing things. We also survey employees on a quarterly basis to ensure that we are keeping our finger on the pulse and inspire diversity through anonymity for those who don’t feel comfortable speaking up on company practices.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | CPI establishes a suite of security program development tools with a focus on progress over legacy compliance-based approaches that cause most organization to struggle. This solution provides a free cyber security score along with tools and resources for organizations to quickly improve their security program health. Unlike other cyber security score providers, CPI focuses on building security programs that can move forward.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | This year, Numecent’s CEO was recognized for creating one of the best working environments for diversity. He is a leader who creates cultures that support and encourage employees of color, providing a positive framework for other executives to model. The company celebrates the diverse backgrounds of its employees while being united by its commitment to providing quality enterprise software to maximize productivity and minimize frustrations. From beers around the world on Fridays to multi-cultural potlucks, voluntary activities for the company’s diverse population are unanimously attended.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) | After uncovering a need for mobile workers that lies between crammed coffee shops and the sky-high price tag associated with big name co-working giants, KettleSpace leverages underutilized hospitality space in the NYC market, KettleSpace by providing affordable membership-based workspace solutions for freelancers, creatives, and budding entrepreneurs, while providing a new, profit-rich revenue stream to restaurant owners and leading hospitality partners.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Roman Kisin is Parley Pro’s CTO and leads the product development team. He is a great tech leader not only because he has the technical chops, but because he truly believes that everyone on his team is great. Roman come to work every day with a positive outlook and passes his contagious attitude to his team.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | GRIMM is an engineering and consulting firm that researches, develops and advises on the art of the possible in cybersecurity. This is accomplished by building a team with diverse technical backgrounds from government, industry, academia and public policy. GRIMM’s team members collaborate across projects and are also free to pursue their unique areas of professional interest which underscores the company’s dedication to innovation, research and advanced problem solving.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | Phyn’s first product, Phyn Plus, finally brings innovation to one of the most critical and often overlooked aspects of a smart home – water. Utilizing machine learning & AI, Phyn Plus measures tiny changes in pressure - 240 times a second - to accurately and quickly identify all types of leaks and plumbing issues in real time and can remotely shut off the main water supply to prevent costly damage.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | At LogicManager, we’re extremely proud of our mission-driven culture. We provide risk management software that empowers companies to protect their customers every time they step on a bus, eat at a restaurant, or trust an organization in any way.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | What makes the Slalom Delivery Center different? The answer is a common one across Slalom: Our People, Our Values and Our Culture. Who we are in the delivery center is the fabric of our being, and the people that sit in our Delivery Centers are the soul of what happens here. So what makes the Slalom Delivery Center different? We start with the Slalom Core Values, focus on skill, curiosity and collaboration, and then mix in a true affection for our client’s best interests and what emerges is a dynamic, energetic place where writing software becomes a joy, and delivering excellence for our clients becomes commonplace.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Carbon Black is proud of its many high-performance teams. These teams are interconnected networks of talented, driven people. Our teams are inspired by our leaders who chart a clear course for our mission and create an environment where teams and individuals are given the resources, support, and freedom to pioneer new ideas and ways to work in order to keep our customers safe from cyberattacks.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | We take equal input from anyone and everyone. There is complete transparency with the administration, and administrators often look to employees for new, innovative ideas. Everyone at AutoGrid is here for a reason, and one of the things that makes AutoGrid great is that all of its employees trust in one another, regardless of where they came from or how long they’ve been in the office. If there is one phrase that sums up the ideation and execution process of AutoGrid it is: Diverse minds create the best products.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | TradeRev embraces innovation, disruption and staying ahead of emerging trends - we consider ourselves forward thinking and daring. With that mindset we encourage employees to push their creative boundaries by providing an exciting and rewarding experience. This comes from both management and our culture. We pride ourselves on the culture we have built on the idea of FHAB - Fun, Honest, Accountable and Brave. Our FHAB mentality enables the team to speak freely, take risks and make mistakes without judgement or consequence. Our management also knows that an innovative idea can come from anywhere and have seen firsthand what an open and collaborative environment can produce.

Best Tech Workplace Diversity (Boston) | MineralTree breaks the mold of a typical startup by employing team members that span a broad range of age groups.

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Raj Singh is always available to help his team find solutions to any problems they are facing. He has a genuine attitude and drive for success that inspires his team to their best. He ensures that all his associates have the means they need to achieve their goals. He is innovative in his though processes and teaching style and makes an effort to be in the know on every department’s projects.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Noirefy’s mission is to connect ethnically diverse professionals, specifically from underrepresented backgrounds, directly to established professionals as well as employee-seeking companies. As a company that's sole mission to expand diversity in companies, she undoubtedly implements diverse practices within her own company. As an overall voice for diversity in the industry (as echoed in the Chicago Tribune, Windy City Live, Marie Claire, etc.) Shaniqua and Noirefy are continually promoting collaboration, and diverse thinking and Noirefy itself is a resource to explore diverse talents.

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Tim Sullivan is dedicated to bettering the careers and personal lives of his team. He prioritizes learning and growth and ensures that his team has the proper tools to be more efficient and grow along with the tech industry. Tim is also a philanthropist who loves to give back to the community and sets an inspiring example for his team and colleagues.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Shorcan requires top tech talent to operate on the cutting edge since their hybrid model allows traders to access the marketplace via voice or electronically. It is a known fact that cryptocurrency is tied tightly to technology so without seeking the best talent it would nearly be impossible to maintain competitive in the market. As a startup, it is vital to remain competitive by demonstrating cutting edge talent and understanding the technological needs of what the market requires especially since traders would have access to our marketplace electronically.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | MetTel believes that the best work comes from an open and supportive work environment— which is why employees stay with MetTel for years, and even decades—and feel a sense of loss when people choose to move to another career path. Many companies claim this, but with MetTel, it’s more than a claim, it’s a demonstrable value. Free-time is as respected as worktime, so weekends and holidays are viewed as just that: life time, not work time. MetTel employees decide what to do, and how to best do their jobs.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | Throughout his 20-year career Erik Brown, a senior director in West Monroe’s Technology practice, has honed his skills as a trusted business consultant and deep technologist, enhancing his ability to serve as an exemplary advisor to both his team and senior client executives. As an early employee of the firm, joining West Monroe in 2002, Erik has played an integral role in leading the people first culture at West Monroe. He has a passion for delivering complex technology-enabled business solutions in a variety of platforms, and he’s known for mentoring engineers and technical managers both within West Monroe and on client teams.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Steph Director, UI/UX at Coinsquare provides autonomy to her team by holding team bonding meals/exercises/get-togethers, where growth is discussed with external mentors as well as herself. She provides lunch and learns and open dialogue. Steph supports the teams ideas, test pilots them, and frequently encouragers new ideas. She fosters a culture of bringing new ideas to the table, failing quick and iterating to inspire innovation.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | Airfox is on a mission is to extend critical financial services to billions of unbanked and underbanked people in emerging markets around the globe.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | We want employees who are self-starters and collaborators with the ability to make a business impact quickly and take the initiative to chart out their own career path. We have endless opportunities for diverse candidates as we create a company that it is at the unique intersection of commerce, content and community.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | NowPow is a women-owned and led technology company headquartered in Chicago's South Side. Our platform identifies social determinant needs, generates highly-matched referrals, shares these referrals with community partners, and tracks each referral status to close the loop on care. We are proud to provide tools that empower care providers to connect patients to highly-matched community resources that help them address their chronic health and social conditions.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | One of the top qualities that every employee at ACTO possesses, without a doubt, is the desire to learn. Every employee is encouraged to find ways to develop and grow within their roles, as well as share their vision of what success means to them, so that the company can identify paths, facilitate and empower them to reach their goals. As an organization in the unique space of technology and the life sciences industry, ACTO provides a space for employees to learn and grow steadily. In this environment, employees feel welcomed, engaged, and inspired to be their best selves.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | KeepTruckin began by offering truck drivers and fleet managers a free electronic logbook app to replace outdated and inconsistent industry standard paper logs. Now, KeepTruckin offers a full suite of tech solutions that work together to help fleets work more efficiently and safely while increasing profits.

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | As an experience design firm, Think Company works hard to design a great employee experience and overall culture for everyone on the team—including their technology discipline. Their Technology leaders intentionally address creativity, innovation, learning, and rewarding a job well done among other initiatives.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | At Ellevation, we believe that diversity is an essential ingredient for success. We won the 2017 Timmy Award for Best Tech Workplace for Diversity, but we knew there was a lot more that we could still do. Over the last year, we almost doubled the number of employees working at Ellevation, and through this expansion continued to make diversity a priority.

Best Tech Manager (Philadelphia) | James empowers the team by allowing people to make decisions, not micromanaging, and encouraging people to do their best. Collaboration is also encouraged. James speaks to each person regularly, to check on project and personal progress. He publicly expresses confidence in individual team members. Between regular team meetings and team events, James ensures that the team embraces collaboration on a regular basis.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Steve is not your typical NASA scientist. He's been my only division chief in my three years at NASA and he's only improved. He holds regular meetings wherein he informs us about mission goals, directives from NASA HQ in Washington, DC, and where he listens to us. He encourages us to talk to him about our issues and he's dealt with everything from issues funding proposed research projects to the state of the nasty bathroom on the third floor of this building that's never been cleaned. He sat with me recently as he explained that he knew I ran a blog and could write well, so would I be interested in writing longer, Nat-Geo type stories about our work at the center? He thought our social media presence wasn't enough and that there's so much more to share with the public about what NASA is up to. I agree, and he gave me full reign to write from the heart and he promised to be involved with that project. He's organizing his contacts with major magazines & news sources to get our work out there. In an attempt to get the larger workforce as excited about outreach as he is, he started a "scientist of the month" nomination on the NASA Ames SS division website - our website - and he volunteered to go first.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | NGD Systems aims to create the world’s first computational storage system. They are focused on bringing computation to data and in doing so, changing the economics and footprint requirements of real-time big data analytics. NGD’s advanced storage technology deploys patented In-Situ Processing technology to provide a computational storage capability that achieves unparalleled scalability for near real-time data processing.

Best Tech Work Culture (Orange County) | Teletrac Navman invests in their engineers. This investment ensures the developers are always up to date with the latest tech in the industry, benefitting both the company and individuals’ professional development. Unlike many other companies, Teletrac Navman encourages using the best tool for the job and is rarely bound by the status quo. Innovation is built into the culture, incentivization and performance structure and management supports the flow of free-form ideas to further that innovation.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | Kim is a rare leader able to evolve her leadership impact from the early pioneering days of Backstop to a growth stage organization and leader in our space. Her ability to communicate her deep technical and industry knowledge is one of many examples of her adaptability and situational smarts.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Jonah Lopin co-founded Crayon, the market and competitive intelligence platform company, in 2015, and he’s making noise in the market with something remarkable.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Agero has a number of outstanding Tech Managers. However, the contributions of Balaji Srinivasan over the trailing 12 months stand out. More remarkable, this is a leader with 20 years of service. Some with that tenure can tend to “coast”, but year on year Balaji grows his team’s capabilities and kicks it into another gear.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | Determined to create a positive well-balanced working environment, one where no one person was compromised, Amber made the risky decision to align her two passions; family and improving technology in the senior living industry. With her drive to change the perception of female executives in the technology industry, coupled with the need for change in the technology culture of senior living, Parasol Alliance was founded.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | AppNeta truly is one of the Best Tech Work Cultures, and it all stems from our core values -- transparency, performance, and trust.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | Having recognized that diversity is a pillar of this success, CMiC actively participates in global hiring practices by sourcing talent from all over the world to find the essential competencies, professional experience and demonstrated success necessary to fuel the company’s ‘innovation engine.’ CMiC believes that by leveraging Canada’s growing pool of highly skilled immigrants, it can leverage the fresh perspectives they bring to enhance our approach to creating new products, bringing them to market and deploying them in partnership with hundreds of customers.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | To promote technical innovation, Oath commits to designing for consumers first. Oath listens to consumers through research, user engagement and user feedback as a base for their product development. Oath also frequently works with the open source community, tech industry counterparts and academic peers to gauge their feedback so they can build better products.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Diversity makes Avant a better place to work and a better business. And since we know diverse hiring goes hand in hand with building a diverse and inclusive culture, we’ve focused on making meaningful improvements to both.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | At Hustle, diversity and Inclusion matters. It matters in the world. It matters to Hustle’s clients and partners. It matters at Hustle. Their team engages in all their work with respect for one another, towards a shared purpose, maximizing Hustle's impact on society.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Claudia promotes career growth by listening to her team and allowing them to explore different aspects of design including project management, design systems, motion design. When the team first came together, we all did a career compass workshop to discover each others strengths, interests and areas for improvement.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | Joey is an expert at understanding an engineer's capabilities and core drivers. Very early on he figures out what is important to a new employee. It could be autonomy, more responsibility, or a route to more compensation. Once understood he develops a clear path that person to attain or reach that goal.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Brandify is and will always be the voice, pulse and work of one diverse and dynamic spirit. This can be seen within the surveys we run, customizable working arrangements we create, platforms we utilize and explorative sessions “brain dates” we implement and share with one another. At Brandify we believe in celebrating the differences of our ideas, influences and needs by utilizing tools and resources that cohesively bring us closer together.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Smartling has so many people from different backgrounds, but what makes them uniquely diverse is the degree to how well the staff and teams collaborates. Smartling has people from different continents and countries that all work together so closely and seamlessly, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between any of their backgrounds.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | SWIM.AI is an edge intelligence software company. Our software platform processes streaming data, enabling real-time analytics, object modeling, and machine learning at the edge. Previously having led Sensity Systems (acquired by Verizon in 2016), founders Rusty Cumpston and Chris Sachs have built a team with a deep understanding of application and networking software stacks. This has led to the creation of SWIM EDX, a unique take on the distributed actor model, which autonomously manages message and service distribution for distributed applications. Unlike most IoT software platforms, SWIM EDX makes use of no open source database technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Akka, Kafka, Spark, etc.), and instead opted to implement a completely proprietary software stack in order to optimize for interoperability and efficiency. The SWIM EDX software stack kernel can be compressed to 2MB in size, enabling the deployment of SWIM EDX into a variety of hardware environments. SWIM EDX dynamically composes heterogeneous objects in a distributed system into a single cohesive application, which can be uniformly addressed by application developers. This drastically simplifies the creation and scaling of real-time AR/VR, industrial, autonomous vehicles, Smart City, artificial intelligence, and other applications.