Sigma Star Systems was founded in 2003 when
Jesse Gumm left his position at
Cayen Systems as lead developer of their flagship system, Academics Plus, a web application for tracking attendance for after-school activities and tutoring programs.
The first planned Sigma Star product was a system called "eSonar," a website monitoring service, which never launched, and soon Sigma Star Systems turned into a software consultancy firm, specializing in web application development and general I.T. services for small businesses.
While we continue to provide these services, we've launched a handful of web-based services, which you can see on our
products page. Our first major product launched in May of 2006 is our wildly successful
DKPSystem.com, a content management system built specifically for gaming guilds in Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, such as the ever-popular
World of Warcraft,
EverQuest. DKPSystem.com has hosted over 5000 guild websites, which have generated hundreds of millions of pageviews.
Our most recent product is a Sports League Management System called
BracketPal.
Bradford Beach was the first user of this software, helping us to iron out the major kinks, we're working with more leagues in the Milwaukee area to get wider adoption. It is our express goal to provide the amateur league market with a much needed modern product for running leagues and tournaments.
We host all of our services out of our colocated rack at
Steadfast Networks in Chicago. The central location of Chicago as a major internet hub between the east and west coasts of America, as well as being away from fault lines and hurricane paths makes Chicago the ideal location for stability in infrastructure as well as relatively low latency to anywhere in the country.
We specialize in development and programming in
Erlang and
PHP, and can handle all aspects of the technology stack from the hardware, through the server configuration (
Apache,
Nginx), to the programming side.
In open source, Jesse is a key maintainer of the
Nitrogen Web Framework, the most popular and well known framework for full-stack Erlang web development. We will also soon be open sourcing
Yabbie, our blogging engine and content management system upon which this site is based.
