CodeNex

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of UNICORE RSL

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Unicore Baia Mare is a dynamic company focused on delivering high-quality services and innovative solutions tailored to meet the evolving needs of its clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CodeNex to accomplish?

• Implement a robust CI/CD pipeline to automate build, testing, and deployment processes
• Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, and performance using modern DevOps practices
• Enhance monitoring, logging, and system security to ensure high availability and quick issue resolution

SOLUTION

How did you find CodeNex?

Referral

Why did you select CodeNex over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from CodeNex were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

The project involves implementing and optimizing DevOps practices to improve the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure and deployment processes. The scope of work includes setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing, and deployment workflows, and improving system monitoring and logging.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The implementation of DevOps practices led to significant improvements in deployment speed, system reliability, and operational efficiency. Deployment time was reduced by over 50%, while the frequency of releases increased substantially.

System uptime improved to over 99.9%, and incidents were detected and resolved faster due to enhanced monitoring and alerting. Manual processes were minimized through automation, resulting in fewer errors and increased team productivity.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The project was managed efficiently, with clear communication and well-defined timelines. All deliverables were completed on time, and the team was highly responsive to our needs and feedback.

They maintained regular updates, quickly addressed any issues, and adapted to changing requirements when necessary. Overall, their proactive approach and professionalism ensured a smooth and successful collaboration.

What was your primary form of communication with CodeNex?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What impressed us the most was their strong technical expertise and proactive approach. They quickly understood our requirements and provided efficient, well-structured solutions.

Their ability to anticipate potential issues and suggest improvements, combined with clear communication and reliability, made them stand out as a highly professional and trustworthy partner.

Are there any areas for improvement or something CodeNex could have done differently?

Overall, we were very satisfied with their work and collaboration. There were no major areas for improvement, but slightly faster initial onboarding and knowledge transfer could have made the process even smoother.

That said, the team was highly responsive and continuously improved throughout the project.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Supertext

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Swedish startup related to messaging and telecommunications

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CodeNex to accomplish?

• AWS Cost Optimisation services
• Migrate applications from Docker Swarm to AWS Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as a code

SOLUTION

How did you find CodeNex?

Referral

Why did you select CodeNex over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from CodeNex were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

• all cloud infrastructure is now represented as code
• project was migrated to use kubernetes
• a lot of optimizations were made on AWS resources reducing cost by 30%
• extensive documentation was added
• different environments were unified
• CI/CD pipeline was modernized

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• AWS bill was reduced by 30%
• GCP bill was reduced by 50%
• onboarding a new developer is taking 2x less time
• everything related to infrastructure is explicitly specified in the code, no magic and no surprises
• we got rid of some old technology in stack which was deprecated many years ago but nobody was dare to touch it

Decreased Monthly AWS bill

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Response time was very short, we were consulted on every step on the way with very detailed explanations in case a decision to be made had any trade offs we should be aware of.

Delivery speed was very high, in some times we were a bottleneck to accomodate for all those changes.

What was your primary form of communication with CodeNex?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They care about the things they do and take responsibility for them

Are there any areas for improvement or something CodeNex could have done differently?

They could have a bit more vacations

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Azitis

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Live auction marketplace for assets in distress. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CodeNex to accomplish?

• Deploy K8S in AWS
• Build CI/CD Pipelines
• Build Autoscaling and Monitoring

SOLUTION

How did you find CodeNex?

Referral

Why did you select CodeNex over others?

• High ratings
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from CodeNex were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Move from a multiple instance EC2 to Kubernetes, from manual deploy to CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

0 downtime deployments, full K8S deployment with autoscale, and CI/CD flow with Jenkins

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

N/A

What was your primary form of communication with CodeNex?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their strong knowledge of the craft, fast responses, proactive approach stood out

Are there any areas for improvement or something CodeNex could have done differently?

Not for us

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CTO of an IT services company. We partner with startups and companies to design, develop, and launch digital products, offering end-to-end tech expertise and ongoing support to help businesses grow and adapt their products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with CodeNex?

We needed help with the DevOps part of a project. More specifically, we needed help migrating a project from an AWS ECS setup to an AWS EKS setup.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

CodeNex migrated a project from an AWS ECS setup to an AWS EKS setup. The team also created multiple staging environments, migrated the deployment logic from GitHub Actions to Jenkins for all staging environments and the production environment, made the production environment horizontally scalable, and optimized AWS costs. CodeNex handled almost all of the tasks and needed minimal project-specific information from us.

What is the team composition?

We worked with one teammate from CodeNex.

How did you come to work with CodeNex?

We found them through an online search. CodeNex’s pricing fit our budget, and they were referred to me.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from July 2025–January 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

CodeNex completed all the tasks with little support from our side. The team moved from one to five staging environments and reduced the monthly costs by around 30%. The system could also automatically scale when specific CPU or RAM thresholds were met.

How did CodeNex perform from a project management standpoint?

CodeNex delivered 99% of the work on time. When the team didn’t meet the timeline, they informed us and explained the reason. We communicated via virtual meetings and email or messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

CodeNex’s proactiveness and technical independence were impressive. The team needed only minimal support regarding the project.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, everything was okay.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CFO of an IT services company. We connect businesses with vetted remote software engineers, specializing in full-stack, frontend, and backend development to ensure seamless team integration and project success.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with CodeNex?

We needed help with DevOps on Azure and Google Cloud.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

CodeNex created high-scale DevOps for various projects. The team handled infrastructure setup, automation scripts, and monitoring tools.

What is the team composition?

We worked with 2–5 teammates from CodeNex.

How did you come to work with CodeNex?

Someone referred CodeNex to us. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings, and their pricing fit our budget.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent between $10,000 and $49,999.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from February 2025–January 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

CodeNex delivered robust systems that worked. The team met our requirements, and we had more scalable projects with fewer bugs and issues on the hosting side.

How did CodeNex perform from a project management standpoint?

CodeNex delivered on time. We communicated via virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We were impressed by CodeNex's professionalism and the number of certifications they had.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There's nothing they need to improve.