Operating system for business aviation fleet management and optimization
Portside operates a platform serving over 1,000 business aviation customers managing 10,000+ aircraft. The tech stack—.NET, C#, ASP.NET, Blazor, SQL, plus AWS/Azure infrastructure—reflects a mature enterprise application built for reliability in a safety-critical domain. Hiring skews heavily toward support (23 of 42 open roles), signaling scaling challenges around onboarding and customer success rather than product velocity; active projects around flight scheduling, crew management, and data import mapping point to operators struggling with manual workflows and data silos.
Portside is a business aviation software company founded in 2017, serving operators of business, government, military, helicopter, charter, fractional, and medevac fleets globally. The platform consolidates aircraft management, crew scheduling, maintenance tracking, and fleet optimization into a single operating system. The company has grown 3–4x annually over the past three years and operates a distributed team across the United States and 10 other countries. Primary pain points they're addressing include documentation gaps, high-volume support tickets, data entry and verification workflows, and process optimization around fleet acquisition and revenue management.
Portside's backend is built on .NET, C#, and ASP.NET with SQL databases. Frontend includes Blazor and JavaScript. Infrastructure runs on AWS and Azure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps for deployment and orchestration.
Over 10,000 aircraft across more than 1,000 customers, spanning business, government, military, helicopter, charter, fractional, and medevac operators globally.
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