What Agile Developer does

Agile Developer, Inc. is a privately held, founder-led professional services firm that delivers expert software-development training and consulting/mentoring to enterprise teams. Founded and operated by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, the firm has been continuously active since 1996, with its formal incorporation reflected in a 2007 firmographic record. It is headquartered near Denver, Colorado and reports 11–50 employees, with delivery organized around the founder as the principal instructor and consultant.

The core product offering is a catalog of multi-day (1–5 day) training programs, quote-based and delivered in-person or virtually. Programs are organized into five tracks: Languages Deep Dive (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, C++); AI-Assisted Software Development (Copilot, ChatGPT, vibe coding, LangChain4J, Spring AI, AI-assisted TDD); Methods & Practices (agile, TDD, architecture, design patterns); Web Development (Angular, React, Grails, Rails); and Technologies & Tools (reactive programming, concurrency). Complementary consulting and mentoring engagements cover agile transformation, team mentoring, and TDD adoption. The firm also owns two proprietary conferences — dev2next in Lone Tree, Colorado and Arc of AI in Austin, TX — which function both as standalone event IP and as lead-generation channels.

The business model is professional services revenue: quote-based corporate training days, consulting engagements, and speaking/keynote fees, with no public pricing, no self-serve platform, and no marketplace distribution. Go-to-market is event-driven and sales-led, anchored by Dr. Venkat's presence at hundreds of conferences and Java User Groups globally (DevNexus, JavaOne, Devoxx, NDC, GIDS, plus JUGs in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America) and by direct email outreach for engagements. Customer base spans enterprise logos across financial services (ABN Amro, American Express, Bloomberg, Charles Schwab), technology (Adobe, AMD, BMC Software, Siemens), healthcare (GE Healthcare, Roche), retail (Best Buy, Nike), and telecommunications (Nokia), with a horizontal segmentation approach across industries.

Name

Agile Developer

Legal name

Agile Developer, Inc.

Website

https://agiledeveloper.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Agile Developer, Inc. is a founder-led professional services firm delivering multi-day corporate training programs and consulting in modern programming languages, agile practices, TDD, and AI-assisted software development to enterprise teams worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Training and Consulting Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Computer Training (611420), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Software Development (Programming, Frameworks, Dev Tools) (EDABAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mobile, Web & UI Engineering (Frontend, Backend, APIs, Mobile) (EDABAFAM), Scaled Agile & Enterprise Product Delivery (SAFe/LeSS/Nexus) (EDABAHAJ), Tools & Platforms Training (Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.) (EDABAHAH), DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering (CI/CD, IaC, Containers) (EDABAFAC)

Keywords

• Software development training
• Agile transformation consulting
• Developer mentoring services
• Programming language courses
• AI-assisted development training

Headquarters

HQ city

Broomfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Training Programs: Multi-day training programs on software development topics delivered in-person or virtual. Training courses range from 1-5 days covering languages, frameworks, methods, and AI-assisted development.
2. Consulting and Mentoring: Expert consulting and mentoring engagements for teams covering technical excellence, agile transformation, team mentoring, and TDD practices.
3. Speaking Engagements: Keynote and session speaking engagements at conferences worldwide, often serving as lead generation for training and consulting services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Agile Developer delivers multi-day professional training programs and consulting services focused on modern software development languages, frameworks, agile practices, architecture, and AI-assisted development. Courses range from 1-5 days and cover Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, C++, web frameworks, reactive programming, TDD, and AI tool integration. Services are delivered in-person at client sites or virtually, accompanied by expert mentoring and agile transformation consulting.

Product overview

Agile Developer offers professional training programs and consulting services focused on modern software development. The core product portfolio includes Languages Deep Dive training (covering Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, C++), AI Assisted Software Development training (covering AI-assisted coding, vibe coding, LangChain4J, Spring AI, AI-assisted TDD), Methods & Practices training (agile development, architecture, TDD, design patterns), Web Development training (Angular, React, Grails, Rails), and Technologies & Tools training (reactive programming, concurrency). Services include consulting in technical excellence, agile transformation, team mentoring, and TDD. The company also organizes two conferences: dev2next (software development, architecture, DevOps, leadership) and Arc of AI (AI strategies and practices).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• dev2next: Premier tech conference for software development, architecture, DevOps, agility, leadership, and more.
• Arc of AI

Products and services

• Languages Deep Dive Training
• AI Assisted Software Development Training
• Methods & Practices Training
• Web Development Training
• Technologies and Tools Training
• Consulting Services
• dev2next Conference
• Arc of AI Conference

Named customers13 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Baeldung: Baeldung is one of the most widely-read Java tutorials and training sites, with paid courses on Java, Kotlin, Spring, and AI topics — a niche but high-authority player targeting the same enterprise Java developer audience with a scalable content model.
• Educative: Educative is a fast-growing interactive text-based learning platform covering software engineering, system design, and AI engineering — an emerging platform competitor that offers a more scalable, self-serve alternative to Agile Developer's live instructor-led model.

Broad incumbents

• Pluralsight: Pluralsight is a scaled enterprise technology learning platform covering Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, AI-assisted development, agile, and DevOps — overlapping topics but delivered via a subscription library rather than live practitioner-led workshops, making it a broader incumbent competitor for the same enterprise upskilling budgets.
• Coursera for Business: Coursera's enterprise offering distributes university- and vendor-built content on software engineering, cloud, and AI — an incumbent platform alternative competing for the same corporate training budgets via a much more scalable but less personalized delivery model.
• JetBrains Academy: JetBrains (maker of IntelliJ, Kotlin, and AI Assistant) operates structured learning tracks on Kotlin, Java, and AI-assisted development — an incumbent tooling-and-training player whose curriculum overlap competes for the same enterprise developer upskilling spend.
• O'Reilly Media: O'Reilly combines a deep technical book catalog, an enterprise learning platform, and live conference training (super早-early O'Reilly Software Architecture and AI conferences) — directly overlapping Agile Developer's book-publishing and technical training activities at a much larger scale.

Direct peers

• ThoughtWorks: ThoughtWorks operates a global consulting and training practice emphasizing agile transformation, technical excellence, and modern software delivery — directly parallel to Agile Developer's agile transformation, architecture, and TDD consulting offerings, and overlapping enterprise customer profile.
• Clean Coders: Clean Coders, founded by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob), is the closest comparable: a practitioner-led training and consulting brand focused on software craftsmanship, agile practices, and TDD, with video courses, live workshops, and enterprise engagements — directly overlapping Agile Developer's offerings and go-to-market model.
• Neal Ford Consulting: Neal Ford is a ThoughtWorks luminary who runs a solo practitioner training and speaking brand focused on agile, architecture, and software design — essentially the same individual-instructor-led model targeting the same enterprise developer audience as Agile Developer.

Others

• Manning Publications: Manning is a long-running technical book publisher with a growing liveVideo and liveProject training catalog, frequently publishing authors on Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, and AI — making it an adjacent content partner/competitor for the same practitioner-author audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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