ivelum

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of a wine platform

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We deliver expert wine news and reviews to millions of wine lovers around the world.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Remove technical debt
• Establish a great design system
• Revamp our website frontend

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Worked to reduce technical debt, update website designs, and develop a design system with good working patterns going forward. Was a challenging project since the codebase is over 15 years old.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Delivering a great user experience that increases membership numbers.

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

They always delivered on time, even on a tight deadline, and communicated extremely well.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Ivelum's development culture is like no other I've ever worked with. You absolutely feel like they are a part of your team.

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

None

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Engineering Team Lead of Intterra

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Geospatial intelligence platform for real-time data and insights for public safety and emergency management

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Migrate our product suite to a new authentication provider

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

We hired ivelum to help migrate our platform to a new authentication provider. The migration required numerous updates in our codebase in multiple repositories. The migration was planned for little to no downtime and without impeding user login, so it had to be implemented carefully and tested thoroughly.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Helped retain a major contract with an on-time, bug-free release

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

Yes, we launched on time. They were flexible with our requests and integrated with our team well. They were engaged, thoughtful, and adjusted quickly when needed.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They were able to assess our complex codebase and make an impact quickly. They ask the right questions and make the complex simple.

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

No, we were satisfied with the work delivered and our working relationship.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Engineering at a software development company.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We build software to prioritize, remediate, and report on security vulnerabilities.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Build and grow an MVP for a security startup
• Build an app from scratch in collaboration with our in-house team.
• Build more features and iterate quickly based on clients' feedback.

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Other

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

Build an app from scratch in collaboration with our in-house team. Build more features and iterate quickly based on clients' feedback.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The key success metric was happy clients who liked our product leading to signed contracts to purchase our product. 

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

This company is founded and led by engineers, which results in a great engineering culture. They know how to work fast and promptly respond to our needs and feedback.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They have hired great engineers who are skilled and are able to embed well into our team. Their focus on full-stack development is great because we can have their team members helps us across our technology stack. 

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

Nope. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founding Engineer of ScaleOptima

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

SaaS for CEO's to manage their organizations strategy. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Update SaaS UI and UX
• Update DevOps

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

We partnered with Ivelum to update our UI and UX. The focus was on making data entry easier for executive users. 

• Update Modals
• Update Tables
• Update Styling

As a secondary goal, Ivelum helped us get automated testing and linting turned on to decrease the number of bugs.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Customer Feedback. 
• We got more positive feedback. 
• We got less negative feedback. 

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

They were highly responsive to our needs. 

They generally shipped on time with ambiguous requirements. They did a very good job managing expectations. 

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

Virtual Meeting

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

They were very good on the phone with other developers. They were quick to make proactive suggestion that had strategic value rather than only working on assigned tasks. The longer we worked with them, the smoother and simpler the tech stack became.

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

I think they did a great job. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of a consulting company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Small business assistant

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Establish an MVP to test 2 hypothesis

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Develop MVP small business assistant to test value.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Continued, observable progress week after week.

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

Their team always responds to needs. Project is not based on scope, rather time. So, scope is not fixed and is determined by what can be accomplished week after week.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Unique: Clear and direct communication and good mix of thorough and flexible development

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

Not at the moment

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at Geecko

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Platform that automatizes developers' relations and help companies hire IT professionals using power of employer brand marketing. Alchemist Accelerator alumni.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• We needed help building 3rd-party integrations for our platform.

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

• Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Our platform integrates with various 3rd-party services for developer collaboration. We knew that ivelum has a lot of expertise in building such integrations, so we hired them to boost the development and offload this work from our core team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have already launched three of the five integrations that we initially planned, and the progress looks excellent so far.

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

They listen to our needs and are very responsive. Also, they do a great job explaining their proposals, so overall, it is smooth sailing.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly they learned the main concepts of our codebase and started contributing. Their combination of expertise and responsiveness is unique.

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

None so far

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder&CTO of Admize FZE LLC

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We create, promote and monetize mobile applications

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire ivelum to accomplish?
Optimize our CI/CD pipeline

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

The goal was to speed up our testing and release pipelines

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our tests now run almost 3x times faster, and the whole release pipeline fits under 15 minutes. This project has significantly boosted our release cadence

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

The communication was great, the timelines were reasonable, and they were willing to go the extra mile. Although it wasn’t in our initial scope, they provided some great insights on how we can optimize our cloud spending

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

These guys are experts and they really know what they’re doing

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

Nope, everything was good

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of a healthcare company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Building advanced clinical workflow automation for the healthcare industry

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Build a robust web application
• Integrate with electronic health records systems
• Build generative AI tooling

SOLUTION

How did you find ivelum?

Referral

Why did you select ivelum over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from ivelum were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

• Build a Django web application. 
• Implement a custom front end with voice and chat interfaces. 
• Integrate with health IT using HL7 FHIR API 
• Build generative AI systems for clinical use cases

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Build functional application

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

• Delivered on time or ahead of time.
• Very responsive and communicative.
• Highly collaborative and professional.

What was your primary form of communication with ivelum?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Communication skills and professionalism in addition to technical skills. I've worked in Silicon Valley for 10 years, and ivelum compared favorably to top companies.

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

No