Ubik Group · Est. 2015
New York · Miami · Global
(001) Staff augmentation
(002) AI & Blockchain

Elite engineering teams for AI and blockchain leaders.

We source, vet, and embed senior engineers directly into your team — at a fraction of what a large firm charges, with direct partner involvement on every engagement.

Trusted by industry leaders
American Express Amazon Johnson & Johnson Coinbase VF Corp BlockApps Otonomi Arena
The problem we solve

The firms that can help you are either too slow, too expensive, or too risky.

You've been here before. A Big Four firm sends a polished proposal and a senior partner — then hands the actual work to a team of offshore juniors you never meet. A pure staffing shop floods your inbox with résumés that don't match. And internal recruiting for senior AI or blockchain engineers? Six months minimum, if you find anyone at all.

Meanwhile, your Q3 deadline doesn't move.

There's a third path.

Two ways to engage.

Most clients embed our engineers into their team. Some hire us to ship a defined product.

01 / Primary engagement
Most popular

Engineering Teams

Dedicated senior engineers in your stack and standup. We source, vet, and manage. You direct the roadmap.

Term6–12 months
PricingHourly · monthly billing
Time to start2–4 weeks
02 / Project work
Fixed scope

Project Engagements

Defined deliverables, defined timeline. We build, ship, and hand over. Ideal for Web3 builds and AI proof-of-concepts.

Term3–9 months
PricingFixed scope · milestones
Time to start3–6 weeks
Featured case

Amazon

Whole Foods & Fresh · AI & Ad Personalization

Amazon's Whole Foods and Fresh teams needed ad personalization driven by real-world context — local weather, regional events, social conversation. Standard targeting wasn't cutting it.

We built a custom AI engine that ingests live signals and delivers hyper-localized ad variants at the store-catchment level, running across both brands in production.

3.4×
Click-through rate uplift
−42%
Cost per acquisition
2.1×
Return on ad spend
Expertise

Four practices. One standard.

Artificial Intelligence

/ 01

From production LLM applications and RAG architectures to applied ML for personalization, fraud detection, and supply-chain optimization.

LLM Applications Generative AI RAG & Retrieval ML Engineering Computer Vision MLOps Kafka dbt Databricks Data Pipelines

Blockchain & Web3

/ 02

Smart contract development across EVM chains, DeFi protocol architecture, custody work, and cross-chain interoperability. Production code, audited and battle-tested.

Smart Contracts DeFi Protocols EVM & Solidity Solana Cross-Chain dApps Security & Audit Infrastructure CI/CD

DevOps & Infrastructure

/ 03

Cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and reliability engineering. We build the infrastructure your product teams ship on.

AWS / GCP / Azure Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Pipelines Docker Monitoring & SRE Security Hardening

Data Engineering

/ 04

End-to-end data platform design — from ingestion and transformation to warehousing and analytics. Clean data, reliable pipelines, actionable insights.

Spark Kafka Airflow dbt Snowflake Databricks ETL / ELT Data Modeling
Why Ubik

Why companies choose us over the alternatives.

01

Partner-led, not pyramid-managed

Work directly with our founders. No account managers passing your brief downstream.

02

Tier-1 quality, without tier-1 overhead

Global talent network with the best cost-to-quality ratio in the market.

03

Engineers shipping in 2–4 weeks

Vetted, senior engineers embedded in your team — not in 6 months, in weeks.

04

Enterprise-cleared, startup-fast

Passed procurement at AmEx, Amazon, and J&J. Agile enough for Series B founders.

Company

Built by operators. Run like an engineering team, not an agency.

Founded in 2015 by Mike Bysiek after American Express asked him to scale their niche software teams. He'd previously led engineering at Xerox and Johnson & Johnson.

A decade later, the firm still runs lean — partner-led on every engagement, with no account managers between you and the work.

Leadership

Mike Bysiek
Mike Bysiek
Founder & CEO
Built engineering teams at Xerox and Johnson & Johnson before scaling niche software teams for American Express. 15+ years in Web3, AI, and Fintech.
Yuriy Kashnikov
Yuriy Kashnikov
Lead Blockchain Architect
Specializes in tokenized asset exchanges, atomic swaps, digital ID, and token distribution contracts. 13+ years on enterprise software. Ph.D. from UVSQ Paris.
Jason Desimone
Jason Desimone
Head of Blockchain
Eight years across major Web3 and social-impact projects as co-founder, advisor, and investor. Appointed to the UN's Blockchain for Impact Commission in 2019.
Anthony Demery
Anthony Demery
President of Business Development
Five years restructuring and growing businesses from 501C3s to startups, focused on integrating exponential tech across verticals.
Mat Fernandez Garcia
Mat Fernandez Garcia
Design Director
18+ years designing for AMEX, Amazon, Aston Martin, Iberostar, and Sorgente. Leads UX/UI for Ubik with a focus on Blockchain and Crypto.
Selected work

Teams we've built.

American Express
Built multiple teams for a high-priority enterprise deployment.
Delivered under budget
Amazon
AI ad-personalization engine for Whole Foods and Fresh.
3× engagement lift
VF Corp
AI talent embedded across multiple teams.
Ongoing partnership
Coinbase
Blockchain engineers supporting infrastructure and protocol work.
Scaled to 8 engineers
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