In 2002, Matthew Porter and Craig McElroy launched a software development side hustle that would grow into Contegix, evolving from its early days as Atlassian’s first cloud to becoming a Platinum Solutions Provider for clients using Atlassian applications.
Today, the team supports various clients, from small private companies to Fortune 500s, and most recently organizations within the public sector, in their DevOps adoption. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, Contegix operates as a remote team, with over 200 employees dedicated to bringing custom IT consulting services to its clients.
Co-founders Matthew Porter and Craig McElroy meet as colleagues at Worldwide Technology. Together, they launch their own part-time side hustle based in St. Louis, MO, where they specialize in writing software for other people.
Porter receives a phone call at 2:17 a.m. from a customer upset about a software failure triggered by full hard drives. While no fault of Porter and McElroy, solving the situation sparks a new focus on providing hosting services for clients as well as writing and deploying software.
Porter and McElroy retire the software development side of the business to grow their hosting services. They name the new company Contegix, which is derived from the Latin word contego, meaning to shield or protect.
After writing a software plug-in for an early client, Atlassian, Contegix onboards Atlassian as a hosting client, operating as Atlassian’s first cloud.
Atlassian and Contegix continue to evolve their business partnership, as Contegix helps launch Atlassian’s first cloud product called Jira Studio. The Contegix team also begins consulting Atlassian users on how to best leverage their toolset with customizations that maximize the capabilities of Atlassian applications. The company is ranked as an Atlassian Platinum Solutions Provider.
New client services are added to the Contegix portfolio, including the enterprise cloud computing offering, Project Zeus.
Growth, growth, growth! Contegix focuses efforts on hiring more staff as the company’s revenue exceeds $10M.
Strattam Capital makes a majority growth investment in Contegix. David Turner joins the team as CEO and Mathew Porter assumes the role of Vice Chairman. Together, they lead the company into its next growth phase.
Contegix acquires BlackMesh, a company focused on managed cloud solutions for digital applications.
Contegix acquires Equip, an Atlassian professional services provider. This announcement marks the company’s fourth acquisition in two years.
Brad Hokamp, a seasoned leader with a proven track record in the cloud, data center, digital transformation, and application development industries, is appointed as CEO.
Contegix acquires Ascend Integrated to further expand secure DevOps solutions offerings, making the team the leading Atlassian Government Solutions partner.
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