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Technology Advisory & Product Delivery

From judgment to execution. We turn business priorities into technology decisions, and decisions into working systems — across Korea and Vietnam.

Consulting Services

Choose the engagement that fits the problem. Every service states who it is for and what you walk away with.

Technology Strategy

Turns business priorities into technology decisions, sequencing and a roadmap.

Best fit
Executive alignment on direction, investment or technology choices.
Outcome
Decision criteria, priorities and a phased roadmap.

Architecture Review

Independent assessment of architecture, scalability, reliability, security and technical debt.

Best fit
Before a launch, a scale-up or an investment decision.
Outcome
Key risks, remediation priorities and recommendations.

Fractional CTO

CTO-level leadership without a full-time hire.

Best fit
Founders or executives who need an independent technology leader and ongoing decision support.
Outcome
Governance, risk management and leadership coverage.

Engineering Organization

Improves delivery models, roles, processes, quality and leadership structure.

Best fit
When delays or unclear ownership repeatedly slow delivery.
Outcome
Clear roles, better delivery flow and operating standards.

Korea ↔ Vietnam Engineering

Translates Korean headquarters intent into engineering execution in Vietnam.

Best fit
Organizations where decisions, ownership or collaboration are the bottleneck.
Outcome
Decision rights, ownership boundaries, collaboration rhythm and delivery structure.

Retail Technology

Architecture and advisory for POS, retail backends, payments, devices and store infrastructure.

Best fit
Retailers connecting stores, central platforms and large device fleets.
Outcome
Architecture aligned to the operating model, with scale and reliability plans.

Product & Project Delivery

Owns an agreed scope from discovery through implementation, launch and stabilization.

Best fit
When an idea needs an accountable partner to become a working product.
Outcome
A working product, technical documentation and an operable handover foundation.

Engineering Team Extension

Adds engineering roles and an ownership model to an existing organization.

Best fit
When internal product ownership stays in place but capacity must grow quickly.
Outcome
A role-defined extended team with sustainable collaboration and handover practices.

Engagement Models

Advisory, delivery, or team extension — matched to the problem.

Advisory

For critical decisions, independent assessment or leadership coverage.

  1. Understand context
  2. Frame the decisions
  3. Agree recommendations and sequencing

Outcome — decision criteria and actionable next steps.

Product & Project Delivery

For turning a defined objective into a working product or system.

  1. Discovery and scope
  2. Design and build
  3. Launch and stabilize
  4. Handover

Outcome — the agreed product scope and an operable technical foundation.

Team Extension

For adding specific roles or capacity to an existing team.

  1. Define roles and ownership
  2. Form the team
  3. Integrate delivery
  4. Improve continuously

Outcome — an accountable extended team working inside the existing organization.

Selected Work

Not a stack list. A record of problems owned.

Extreme Scale

High-Traffic Travel Platform

Distributed architecture for a Korean travel business.

Retail

1M+ ESL Infrastructure

On-premise and high-availability infrastructure planning for over one million electronic shelf labels.

Platform

Smart Retail Platform

Connecting POS, inventory, B2B, payments, cloud and observability.

Mobility

100K-user Service Platform

Distributed backend engineering for a consumer mobility and care platform.

Connected Device

Bluetooth-connected Product

Bluetooth dongle, mobile app, device integration and backend.

EDA Tools & IP

ION Chip represents iSTART-TEK INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) in Korea for customized EDA tools and memory test & repair IP — bringing our semiconductor channel and our software engineering practice to the same customer.

Highlights

  • EDA tools for SRAM BIST and BISR
  • IP for SRAM BIST/BISR and eFlash BIST/BISR
  • Customized design service
  • ISO 26262 TCL1 and FMEDA
  • Patents in Taiwan, Mainland China and the US
  • Mature-node physical design — 22 / 28 / 40 / 55 nm

Mission

  • The best APPA — algorithm, power consumption, performance and area — across every product
  • Increase the yield rate through repair technology
  • Control DPPM by UDA
  • Complete DFT flows alongside third-party EDA tools

Opportunities

  • HPC — AI and edge computing
  • Automotive SoC
  • Consumer electronics and industrial SoC
  • Emerging memories — MRAM, RRAM and CIM IP

iSTART-TEK INC. is an independent company; its tools, IP and trademarks belong to iSTART-TEK. For a technical briefing or an evaluation, use the consultation form below.

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