Built to deliver outcomes, not presentations

We're Upturn Technologies — an IT consulting firm in Princeton, NJ, founded on one idea: that growing businesses deserve the same quality of technology strategy as Fortune 500 companies.

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Clients partnered
startups to enterprise
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Our story

Enterprise expertise. Startup speed.

We started Upturn because we'd watched too many small companies get burned by two extremes: expensive consulting firms that moved slowly and delivered polished slide decks, and offshore dev shops that moved fast but couldn't think strategically.

Our model is different: named senior consultants, biweekly working demos, fixed-scope pricing, and full ownership transfer at the end. You hire us to build something that works — and we don't leave until it does.

What we believe

Our values

Outcomes over outputs

We measure success by business impact, not deliverable count. Every engagement is scoped around a KPI your board cares about.

Named experts, not anonymous teams

You meet your consultants on Day 1 and work with the same people throughout. No bait-and-switch.

Transparency by default

Fixed-scope pricing, biweekly demos, and honest updates on what's working and what isn't. No surprises.

Startup velocity

We were built to move fast. Discovery in days, prototypes in weeks, production in months — not quarters.

Leadership

Meet the team

Experienced practitioners, not career consultants — every person on your engagement has built and shipped real products.

Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera

CEO & Co-founder

15+ years in enterprise IT transformation. Led digital programs at Fortune 500 clients before founding Upturn.

Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen

CTO & Co-founder

Engineering leader with deep expertise in AI/ML systems and cloud-native architecture at scale.

Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson

VP, Data & AI Practice

Former data science lead at two unicorn startups. Specialist in applied ML and analytics strategy.

Priya Kapoor

Priya Kapoor

VP, Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 12 years building resilient platforms for financial services clients.

Our history

A decade of delivery

2014
Company founded
Upturn Technologies incorporated in Princeton, NJ to deliver IT consulting to growth-stage companies in the mid-Atlantic region.
2016
AI/ML practice launched
Dedicated data science and machine learning practice established ahead of the mainstream AI wave.
2018
Cloud practice expands
Became AWS Consulting Partner and expanded cloud migration capabilities across healthcare and financial services clients.
2020
200th client milestone
Reached 200 client partnerships. Remote delivery model refined during the pandemic — now a permanent strength.
2022
Gen AI early adopter
Shipped first production LLM application — a HIPAA-compliant clinical assistant — 18 months before the market caught up.
2024
Princeton HQ expansion
Moved to Carnegie Center to accommodate a growing team. Expanded staffing and application testing practices.
Credentials

Certified. Compliant. Trusted.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Google Cloud Professional
Microsoft Azure Expert
SOC 2 Type II Ready
HIPAA Compliant Delivery
ISO 27001 Practices