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 been home to over 5,000 guilds.
In 2011, we launched the Sports League and Tournament Management System called
BracketPal. Starting locally managing Milwaukee-area leagues and tournaments, it expanded throughout the US, Australia, New Zealand, and had a small presence in Europe. In 2017, BracketPal was
acquired by SportsEngine, Inc to be the spearhead of its beach volleyball initiative.
Sigma Star Systems specializes 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 application side programming.
Jesse is an avid open-source contributor and is the lead developer of the
Nitrogen Web Framework, one of the most popular and well known frameworks for full-stack Erlang web development.
