Brightgrove

HRS GmbH is a family-run company established in Cologne in 1972 as a travel agency. Now it’s a reputable hotel reservation provider with 1500+ employees in 16 countries worldwide. Our partner is one of the global market leaders in tech- and big data-driven travel solutions. Their client list includes 3000+ hotels, restaurants, and retail companies globally. The company provides over 300,000 accommodations in 190+ countries for business and private travelers. They make travelers’ life easier with their own smart, modern, and convenient free software products that allow all customers to book quickly and easily.

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INDUSTRY

• Hospitality & Travel, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• HQ: Cologne, Germany
• Globally: 35 offices in 16 countries

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Gathered up a Full-Stack Scrum Team for end-to-end development of several products related to real-time analytical solutions (hotel booking) and AWS cloud-based enterprise architecture.
2. Provided critical migration of the legacy code onto the modern tech stack.
3. Maintenance and support of the client’s existing systems.
4. Set up CI/CD pipelines and QA flow.

TECHNOLOGIES

• АWS, JavaScript, Java, React, Python, SpringBoot, Node.js, SQL, Rest/JSON, Swagger, JAX-WS, Maven, Gradle, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Gerrit, IntelliJ, UML, JIRA, Confluence, Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch

TEAM SIZE

• 18 experts (PM/Scrum Master, Product Managers, Certified AWS Solution Architects, Tech Leads, Data Engineers, Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA Automation)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.hrs.de/

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id332193586?mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hrs.b2c.android

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 1995, OLR is the American real estate and web design and development agency that have created an exclusive OLR Data Platform. It’s the most widely used resource among more than 1.3k B2B clients and 2k residential brokers, landlords and management companies in the New York City area. OLR offers the subscription-based web portal and game changing mobile apps that provide the best listing data in NYC.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• New York, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Created 2 Full-Stack Scrum teams for Client & Backend Development, QA and support of 2 client’s solutions – B2B & B2C.
2. Improved the overall code quality by implementing the TDD approach to cover the code with unit tests and use of Dependency Injections along with encouraging SOLID principle and single EF context for the entire application.
3. Cleaned up 1M+ lines of Legacy Code to transfer the project from the old tech stack to modern one.
4. Re-wrote the core functionality of old features, got rid of stored procedures, and introduced migrations.
5. Boosted the product’s security by improving the data storing with an encrypted environment.
6. Updated both the B2B & B2C platforms with new functionality. Made the portal responsive, fast, mobile- and user-friendly, and implemented new UX Design.
7. Moved the project from Kanban to Scrum methodology.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core (C#), Angular 4, React, Node.js, MS SQL Server, Less, WebForms, WCF, NHibernate, Telerik, Elastic Search, Amazon Web services; REST API

TEAM SIZE

• 16 engineers (Mobile, Frontend, Backend, QA, UX/UI designers, PO/Scrum Master, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.olr.com/  

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 2014, Doozer Real Estate Systems GmbH is an exclusive Berlin-based B2B web platform for construction management services and homeowners alike. It’s an online cooperation bridge between the craft companies, real estate landlords, engineers, and asset managers, offering considerable time and cost advantages.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for Dart Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Go, PostgreSQL, Dart, Angular, HTML, SCSS, Git, Jira; Microservices; BloC pattern

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (Frontend)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.doozer.de/ 

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

RealPlus, LLC is a company with vast experience in the real estate, data, and listing systems that has been providing tech solutions to the New York City real estate industry since 1984. For many years, they were the first and only service that offered electronic interchange of exclusive listings data for Manhattan-based brokerages. They developed a digital listings exchange system currently used by the city. The system transmits up to the minute inventory between the firms. It has grown from 10 firms and 300 listings exchanged daily up to 500 firms and around 10k listings exchanged daily.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• New York, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Set up a Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA
2. The legacy system was hard to support and expand with the codebase that was highly difficult to change. So, we've outlined the new tech stack, new platform’s architecture, and its fundamental modules to start the redevelopment process. 
3. Fully migrated the project to Azure DevOps to automate and speed up the development and set up effective collaboration among distributed team members.
4. Optimized the legacy database.
5. Set up the CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
6. Created all supporting documentation for the new application.
7. Replaced the outdated project management methodology that didn’t allow flexibility and scalability of the development processes.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, Angular, Fuse, ElasticSearch, Elmah.io, Azure DevOps, Swagger, NLog, NgRx, RxJS, TypeScript

TEAM SIZE

• 17 engineers (Full-Stack, Mockup Designer, Tech Lead, UI/UX, Frontend, Database Administrators, QA Engineers, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://realplusonline.com/  

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 1990, HERDT-Verlag fur Bildungsmedien GmbH is a well-established multilingual publishing house for educational media that are known for their high didactic and methodological quality. These are topicality, quality, and customizability of IT educational media for companies, authorities, training service providers, educational institutions, adult education centers, schools, universities, trainers, teachers, and private customers. The company is the market leader for IT training materials in more than 500 topics, and have sold over 30 million books for beginners, users, and experts.

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INDUSTRY

• Education, Enterprise Software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Bodenheim, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Scrum Team for B2C Platform Development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP, JS, Bootstrap, Yii 2, Angular, MySQL, SetaSign, Rest API, Azure Cloud

TEAM SIZE

• 9 engineers (Project Manager/Product Owner, Manual & Automation QA, Full-Stack)

Visit our client’s website: https://cms.herdt.com/

CHALLENGE

Pluto wanted to expand their presence on a global market and across smart TV devices. To do so, they had to reach a new level of software quality. They were ready to extend an in-house software development capacity with an external team.

SOLUTION

Pluto requested up to ten senior team members with a particular skill set. Their request took place during December holiday season—not an easy time to hire, we have to say. We’ve come up with a compromise:

In one month, we set up a dedicated team of 4 top-level specialists. Our time to fill was 31 days when average time to fill in our industry equals 52 days. While the hired specialists were dealing with urgent tasks from Pluto, we found 6 more requested experts. In a year, the team grew up to 23 engineers.

During the 1st year this team accomplished a range of important tasks:

• Optimized, stabilized and advanced Pluto’s software, making it more user-friendly, smoother, faster, and highly competitive on the market.

• Fragmented the Monolithic architecture into Microservices. This solution made Pluto’s software more stable and easily scalable, made possible much needed integration of other technologies.

• Integrated Bootstrap API, improved energy-saving functionality, and implemented the ‘Video On Demand’ feature in Android and iOS apps.

• Developed an AdTech internal analytical tool to track user engagement stats, target audience behavior, and time spent metrics.

• Integrated Pluto’s software with Viacom’s back end to enforce the fast and consistent data exchange between Pluto and Viacom’s services and optimize the clusters’ organizational pattern.

RESULTS

• International desktop, iOS and Android Pluto apps we launched became top-rated on the market.
• The number of monthly active users increased to 12M.
• Customer’s revenue increased 3x by the end of 2018.
• Migration to Microservices architecture allowed Pluto to get 140+ new business partnerships with key industrial brands like Viacom, Sony, Samsung, and Visio TV.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is an award-winning, leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, legal, and other related services. Founded in 1845, they grew into multinational professional services network and became one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Currently, it’s the largest services network in the world by revenue and number of employees (312,000+). Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies.

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INDUSTRY

• Logistics, Retail

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• HQ: London, United Kingdom

MARKET OUTREACH

• Worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Enterprise Web App Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ruby, HTML, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grape, Azure

TEAM SIZE

• 7 engineers (QA, Client, Backend, Scrum Master)

Visit our client’s website: https://www2.deloitte.com/global/   

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Quoka GmbH is a German trio of free and easy-to-use online marketplace and free interactive mobile apps for sellers and buyers, in any field from job offerings and services to pets, real estate, and handmade products. The company started as local advertising newspapers in 1983, and have grown into the top web portal for classified advertising regionally.

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INDUSTRY

• Retail, E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Mannheim, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled and retained a Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA that reports directly to the Product Owner on the German side.
2. Successfully integrated Scrum Methodology from scratch and taught the client’s team to use it.
3. Moved the legacy results of client’s 30+ years in business into Amazon Cloud.
4. Set up stable and all-in-one QA flow that increased development and testing the productivity of the client’s in-house team.
5. Handled a complex modernization of the legacy web portal and mobile apps, which required a wide range of upgrades and up-to-date tech stack implementation.

TECHNOLOGIES

• AWS Suite, REST API, Java, NodeJS, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, MongoDB, MySQL, Kubernetes, Helm, Codeception, Composer, Terraform, VueJS; CQRS, Event Sourcing; Git; Spring Framework, Spring Boot; Microservices

TEAM SIZE

• 10 engineers (Client, Backend, QA, UI/UX)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.quoka.de/

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

CHALLENGE

At the end of 2018, the BRAGI GmbH owners wanted to create a second generation of the product. They chose Brightgrove as their new partner.

The challenges we’ve faced included:

• Create a new software development kit (SDK) for the second generation of the customer’s hardware.

• Develop a new minimum viable product (MVP) version of the existing Android app

• Deploy a stable, optimized, and user-friendly Android app.

• Provide the necessary quality assurance services, following strict security policies.

• Completing all technical tasks without the hardware prototypes in our office.

SOLUTION 

Our team helped Bragi to achieve their main strategic goals by:

• Developing a new SDK as the core developer tool to use for the second generation of The Dash Pro.

• Building a new MVP version of the existing but modernized and improved Android app and preparing for its release, with new health checking and data streaming features added.

• Helping to deploy a fully functional, bug-free, and stable second-generation Android app, following a very tight timeframe with an established deadline.

• Assuring the highest quality of code and providing a secure development environment.

RESULTS

• Presented a demo version of their second-generation The Dash Pro in May 2019.

• Created sophisticated software without having the hardware prototype under our roof as it is a trade secret by regularly visiting the customer to follow a knowledge transfer procedure.

• Developed the core developer tool—a new SDK for the second generation of the customer’s innovative hardware product.

• Improved BRAGI’s existing Android app by building a new modernized MVP version with new features and functionality including health checking, increased battery life-cycle, and data streaming.

• Released the fully functional demo of a new user-friendly and stable Android app.

• Provided quality assurance services and debugging to ensure that the code is clean and stable.

CHALLENGE

Synovia develops fleet management software that improves the safety of vehicles and passengers and makes GPS tracking more affordable. Their product provides the monitoring of every aspect of vehicle and driver activity in real-time, along with comprehensive historical reports.

In 2012, Synovia partnered with us to hand over their whole QA cycle to a remote team of senior engineers.

Brightgrove faced the following challenges:

• Create an Agile Scrum flow of QA services to test all of the customer’s solutions—UI, front- and back-end, and mobile.

• Set up effective communication to overcome a time-zone difference.

• Ensure that all software works stably and adequately, following strict security policies.

• Establish a regular monitoring process to make sure that the data is transmitted and stored on the backend side continuously.

SOLUTION

We had to hire and onboard highly-skilled QA engineers in the shortest time possible to start the project without delays. Having our own talent pool, we were able to set up a dedicated team in 15 working days.  

Since 2012, our team has helped Synovia in a number of ways:  

• Set up an uninterrupted and continuous Scrum QA process, took over the testing of functionality for the user interface, front- and back-end sides, iOS and Android.  

• Fixed all the flaws to improve the overall quality, speed, stability, and reliability.  

• Implemented regular monitoring and checking flow to ensure that the data collecting, transmitting, and storing processes are seamless and continuous.

RESULTS

• Retained the whole team since 2012.

• Increased the productivity of the system’s performance and provided full-cycle QA services.

• Created all needed test cases and adapted to the exploratory testing techniques.

• Ensured cleanliness, safety, and stability for an ongoing process of data collecting and its transmission onto the back-end side to be securely stored.

CHALLENGE

Aginity’s goal was to develop a software platform for enterprise analytics management that would allow users to discover, create, share, and reuse analytics rather than constantly recoding it. 

We had to complete the following tasks: 

• Develop a paid product that would help teams produce more consistent analytic results faster. 

• Give the platform the ability to integrate with any client warehouse like Snowflake or RedShift. 

• Ensure that the deployment process is flexible to run on main clouds like AWS, Azure, or Google. 

• Develop a fully functional, free version of a product that would help individual professionals attract new clients. 

SOLUTION

We transferred Aginity’s existing team of 4 engineers from another outsourcing vendor to Brightgrove’s office, providing the necessary legal support and the infrastructure. After that, our Recruitment Department assembled the additional development and delivery dedicated team under our roof. During the period from September to December 2012, we handpicked 8 senior and middle engineers for front- and back-end development and quality assurance. 

We achieved the maximum load of 40 members when there was a need to boost the customer’s capacity even further. 

RESULTS

• Developed unique analytics management software that combined business logic and data to create a multi-brand analytics environment.
• Took part in enabling the platform to integrate with any client warehouse, from Snowflake to IBM PureData System.
• Moved the back-end from the old .NET tech stack to modern Java, optimizing its code.
• Created a brand new free desktop version of the main product but for individual experts, and prepared for its launch in Q2 2019.
• Developed the product’s user guide and supporting technical documentation.

With HQ in Germany, Robert Bosch GmbH is the globally-known multinational engineering and cutting-edge technology company with 130+ years of industry expertise. It’s the world’s leading manufacturer of vehicle hardware and software, automotive components, consumer goods and industrial tools, system solutions for plants, connected energy and building products, and IoT-enabled power tools. Their products are used on every continent by both the machinery manufacturers and end users.

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INDUSTRY

• Energy & Power, Manufacturing, IoT

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Gerlingen, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• 150 countries worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Native mobile app development for IoT-enabled power tools (iOS & Android)

TECHNOLOGIES

• iOS SDK, Android SDK, BLE, Java, Objective-C

Visit our client’s website: https://www.bosch.de/

Streamlabs is a Logitech International S.A. software development company that builds tools and software products for livestreaming purposes. Their software allows content creators to engage with their fans, monetize their broadcasts, and grow their channels. Being a top streaming platform for Twitch, YouTube, & Facebook, Streamlabs is a leader in a fun and exploding industry. 

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INDUSTRY

• Entertainment, Esports, Gaming, Enterprise Software, Livestreaming

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• San Francisco, California, USA
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling services with  end-to-end relocation support

Visit our client’s websites:

https://streamlabs.com

https://www.logitech.com/en-us

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/streamlabs-stream-live/id1294578643

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streamlabs&hl=en_US

CHALLENGE

Founded in Berlin, Run a Shop GmbH is a tech startup that works with leading e-commerce companies and merchants, providing them with highly profitable traffic at the lowest possible cost per click. The platform operates in 24 countries, reaching 2 M+ daily users and 10 M clicks per day.

In 2011 Run a Shop hired Brightgrove to help them finish building a new software product.

We were to complete the following tasks:

• Hire a remote dedicated team of senior and middle engineers to handle the quality assurance and full-stack development.

• Implement Agile software development methodology instead of Waterfall.

• Develop a responsive web app with the mobile view mode almost from scratch.

• Perform quality assurance and bug fixing.

• Develop and scale the back end/CRM solution.

SOLUTION

Since 2011 we’ve been handling the full-cycle recruitment, hiring and onboarding services, assembling a team of engineers with excellent communication skills.

To improve the development flow and increase productivity, we replaced the Waterfall methodology with the Agile Scrum.

Using Responsive Web Design techniques and precise UI designs provided by the customer’s team, we created 2 versions of a cross-browser-compatible web application that works in a mobile view mode. The pilot version presented a user-friendly price navigator platform that aggregated merchants like Amazon, eBay and eBay Auctions, Kelkoo AliExpress, Google Adsense Billiger Otto Group, and Shopzilla. The second version was much faster, with a new tech stack and extended functionality. 

RESULTS

• Set up and retained a dedicated Agile team of middle and senior experts since 2011.
• The product has received numerous awards from Google, European Tech 5, and Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
• Created and launched 2 stable and secure versions of the app.
• Wrote the test cases for both the internal and customer’s usage.
• Participated in the development of a scalable CRM system to manage all websites.

CHALLENGE

In 2017, FreshBooks’s owners were looking for a new dedicated team of Android developers. The quality of a native Java Android app created by the current vendor was unsatisfying. So the team at FreshBooks chose Brightgrove as their new outsourcing partner.

To meet this challenge, Brightgrove had to:

• Clean up the legacy code, providing necessary changes and quality assurance.

• Develop new features for the Android app and modernize it, following Agile Scrum methodology.

• Implement an advanced payment system in the app using a virtual payment terminal and card QR scanning.

SOLUTION

In 20 working days we assembled the initial dedicated team of 2 Android developers and 1 Scrum Master to manage the project. Later on, satisfied with the quality of our services and development speed, FreshBooks’ owners requested the expansion of the dedicated team.

What Brightgrove did:

• Reviewed the legacy code and provided the required maintenance and bug fixing.

• Stabilized, modernized, and optimized the Android app with new features and functionality.

• Covered the development process with autotests to improve the QA procedure.

• Developed and integrated a new payment feature that works based on the virtual payment terminal and card QR scanning.

• Updated and evolved the iOS app with the new functionality with the in-house team.

RESULTS

• Utilized the Agile Scrum methodology and followed the development process based on the practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

• Reviewed the old code and covered the development process with autotests, which increased the Android app’s speed and the overall quality of the code.

• Refactored the legacy code to increase the speed of synchronization with a server, getting rid of the offline mode to make the data fetching faster.

• Stabilized, modernized, and optimized the Android app with new features and functionality, including the new advanced payment feature.

• Implemented key features in Android and iOS apps.

Founded in 1847, Siemens AG is a German multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in Munich. With more than 385,000 employees worldwide, it’s the largest technology manufacturing company in Europe with numerous offices abroad. Their primary focus divisions are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities. The company is well-known for the production of various medical diagnostics equipment; buildings-related products; driving and automation tools; industrial plant-related and energy-related products; lighting equipment; fire alarms; PLM software; and products for transportation and logistics industry.

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INDUSTRY

• Energy & Power, Manufacturing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Munich, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• Worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for a Classified Development Project

Visit our client’s website: https://new.siemens.com/global/en.html

Payback GmbH is a multi-partner loyalty program and multichannel worldwide marketing platform from Germany. Their secure, and reliable software combines and customizes the e-coupons, loyalty, and mobile payments. With over 20 years of experience in the market and 31M+ customers, the company empowers businesses to run integrated campaigns via their offline, online & mobile solutions that lead to up-selling, cross-selling, customer acquisition, and (re)activation, image and brand building. Their mobile app’s user base crossed almost 10M active users in 2020.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, ePayments, Marketing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Munich, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• Germany, Poland, India, Mexico, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Provided a team of highly skilled engineers for backend development.
2. Set up seamless and efficient Agile communication and development flow with high productivity.
3. Integrated a stable custom mobile payment gateway.
4. Increased the level of backend security and overall quality by integrating modern tech stack and covering the development process with autotests.
5. Ensured continuous features development and support for the existing solutions.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, ASP.NET WEB.API, Entity Framework Core, Angular, Elastic Search, Microservices

Visit our client’s website: https://www.payback.net/de/home/

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Geutebrück GmbH is an international provider of cutting-edge intelligent video security and video management software and the associated hardware. 200+ employees of our partner’s company help protect people, properties, relationships, and processes since 1970. The product line has solutions for identification of all possible objects, staff protection, early faults detection, car parks monitoring, goods location tracking, optimization of processes onsite, documentation of processes based on video recordings, resolving the liability issues.

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INDUSTRY

• Video Security, CCTV, Enterprise software
• Information Technology and Services

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Windhagen, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA  

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, SignalR Core, gRPC, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes / Helm Charts, Identity Server 4, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Basic Cryptography, Apache Solr, Consul, PowerShell Core, Serilog, MediatR, Autofac, BenchmarkDotNet, DevExpress Reporting, JavaScript, TypeScript, Jira, SOAP, Selenium WebDriver

TEAM SIZE

• 20 engineers (PM, Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA Manual & Automation)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.geutebrueck.com/

pkw.de Autoboerse GmbH is an online marketplace for millions of pre-owned cars, offering retailers special service packages for vehicle marketing and numerous free services to end customers, such as good used cars price rating and supply generator, which makes it easier for dealers to offer their vehicles. Buyers and sellers act fairly instead of haggling. PKW’s unique independent price check allows to easily find verified cheap bargains and directly compare used cars cross-checking any of the 65 vehicles’ characteristics thanks to very complex evaluation algorithms and a huge database of the platform. Their precise vehicle evaluation was certified by TÜV Rheinland.

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INDUSTRY

• Retail & E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA  

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ruby, HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, REST, APIs, Heroku, AWS, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, React, ML

TEAM SIZE

• 16 engineers (Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA, iOS, Android, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.pkw.de/   

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 2017 in Cologne, aedifion GmbH is a well-established and government-funded tech company that provides the advanced Building Automation Technology (BAT) solutions.

aedifion.io is the highly specialized cloud platform for advanced operation, monitoring and optimization of technical building equipment, energy systems and district heating and cooling networks. You receive a comprehensive tool with which you can reduce your operating costs, increase energy efficiency and increase the benefit of your systems. It allows to control, process, and optimize the data collected from energy systems and building equipment. For example, by quickly uncovering faults, correcting operational inefficiencies, by improving thermal comfort or indoor air quality.

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INDUSTRY

• IoT, Enterprise Software, Smart home

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Edge and backend functionality development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• Python, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgresql, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, K8s.

Visit our client’s website: https://www.aedifion.com/

PIN Mail AG is a correspondence delivery company with more than 1,300 employees, operating as a contractor of the Mail Alliance (mailworXs GmbH) – a network of private mail shipment service providers. PIN Mail offers intelligent delivery services for nationwide post shipment and climate-neutral shipping of all correspondence.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software, Logistics, Courier delivery

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Created a nearshore Full-Stack Scrum team for Web App Development
2. Optimized the architectural structure and developed the server app able to handle high load seamlessly (Single-page web app + RESTful web API).
3. Enriched the client’s “Shipment Manager” web app with a set of features that allow users to create wholesale orders, download and validate vast amounts of delivery addresses, and generate a delivery route for each address through the network’s logistics points.
4. Made the application mobile-friendly with the Twitter Bootstrap library.
5. Implemented the best QA practices and tools to ensure the highest code quality and the overall stability of the product.  

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Angular, Redux, Node.js, NgRx, Lodash, PrimeNG, RxJS, ORM Entity Framework Core, AutoMapper, xUnit, Moq, GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Nexus, Kubernetes, Docker

TEAM SIZE

• 3 engineers (Full-Stack)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.pin-ag.de/ 

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

media access GmbH developed unique software for professional senior experts management. It is crucial to be able to find the right amount of data about such experts and be able to cross-reference it against the needed criteria. The client’s software thinks ahead and addresses the 3 core areas of senior experts’ management that simplify business processes: matching, fulfillment and controlling.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Stuttgart, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled a Full-Stack Engineering team for B2B web portal development and integration of Scrum from scratch.
2. Moved the project to Scrum methodology, which resulted in the overall improvement of communication, planning, and development processes. The delivery speed has more than doubled.
3. Improved the QA procedure with 85% unit tests coverage and established regular code reviews.
4. Developed a stable and user-friendly web platform with all related functionality and backend, along with the responsive version which uses the same codebase. With it, media access expanded the global client base by 70%.

TECHNOLOGIES

• ASP.NET MVC 5, MSSQL, EntityFramework, jQuery, VueJS, REST API, Bootstrap, Microservices

TEAM SIZE

• 6 engineers (Frontend, Backend, QA, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.media-access.net/hilfe/kontakt/  

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 2014 as a subsidiary of WW Grainger Inc., Zoro Tools Europe GmbH is a Düsseldorf-based e-commerce platform for professional high-end tools trading. Operating own international logistics team and warehouse, they simplify the procurement of necessary instruments and consumables from professional brands for business needs. In their online shop, you can find hand and power tools, fastening technology & fittings, work and protective clothing, office items and equipment as well as storage and workshop equipment. Zoro Tools provides quick availability, superior customer service, and a fair price level.

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INDUSTRY

• E-commerce & Retail

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Maintenance of an Enterprise Microservices Architecture

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java, Spring Boot Framework, SQL and Non-SQL Databases, REST, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Apache Kafka, Messaging Services (Amazon SQS), SOAP

Visit our client’s website: https://www.zoro.de/

Vimcar GmbH is an award-winning manufacturer of IoT car tracking devices and software that are directly integrated with a car’s onboard monitoring system via the ODB protocol plug and allow collecting in-depth information about road trips and car’s technical parameters. The client’s products digitize end-user’s fleet from logbooks to vehicle management and location regardless of whether there are 1 or 200 vehicles, thereby eliminating manual workload, and saving costs.

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INDUSTRY

• IoT, Transportation

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-cycle Native Mobile Apps Development (IoT-enabled)

TECHNOLOGIES

• Android SDK, Java, REST, HTTPS, BLE, SSL, Objective-C

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (iOS & Android, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://vimcar.de/

iflow AG is the leading Swiss provider of services and software tools for the analysis and digitization of the business processes of SME enterprises. Their platform operates as a highly secure data storage that allows clients to gradually optimize, streamline, and automate their administrative and business processes. Along with setting up the software, iflow experts also train clients’ employees to ensure that the most efficient methods are implemented and optimally used by an enterprise.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software, Business optimization

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Risch-Rotkreuz, Switzerland

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Native Mobile Apps and Backend development services
2. DevOps Integration from scratch
3. Built and launched fully functional iOS & Android apps with the implemented WWPass zero-trust multi-factor authentication and client-side data encryption technology.
4. Helped to update and optimize the client’s Monolithic architecture, moving its parts to up-to-date tech stack and integrating new technologies like Docker container service.
5. Recoded the backend side in the latest Java version.  

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java, Apache Ant, Jenkins, Gradle, Docker; Monolith

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (DevOps, iOS, Android, QA)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.iflow.ch/ 

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CHALLENGE

At the beginning of 2019, Feo Elektronik started a new project related to ARM embedded software development. Their in-house development team needed an expansion: experienced embedded developers with a specific skill set. Brightgrove offered its recruitment and dedicated team set-up services. 

Brightgrove faced the following tasks: 

• Promptly find and hire 2 senior software engineers with narrow C/C++ expertise and experience with an RTOS environment (FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS).

• Develop and release a secure and ISO-compliant embedded application for ARM microcontrollers in smart traffic lights that will communicate voice alerts to blind people. 

• After the development is finished, provide support and integration of new functionality. 

SOLUTION

Originally, Feo Elektronik wanted to hire developers to work on-site as members of their in-house team. However, after we presented our dedicated team business model, they decided to try remote cooperation.

Found experts have 5+ years of experience and in-depth knowledge of RTOS environment, ARM controllers, Bluetooth Low Energy, CAN, and RS 232. On 15th April 2019, our team officially began their work.

For the first 2 months, our engineers went to Germany to follow the onboarding and knowledge transfer procedures. After they’ve passed the probation period and came back to Ukraine, we placed the team in our R&D center in Kyiv.

Our engineers’ responsibilities on the project include:

• Creating unit tests and development-accompanying documentation

• Embedded development

• Testing and documenting firmware with respect to Bluetooth communication, internal communication, and control algorithms.

RESULTS

 • Found and hired highly experienced professionals with rare technical skill set

 • Established a steady development flow based on Scrum-like methodology

 • Provided the dedicated team with all needed equipment and infrastructure

 • Successfully following the product release plan

Founded in 2009 and based in Cologne, ACTINEO GmbH is an independent service provider specializing in holistic personal injury management solutions. The company is the German market leader in the digitalization and medical assessment of bodily injury claims. On behalf of insurance companies, our client provides digital platforms that optimize and objectify the regulatory process providing its automation and standardization. Their line of services includes the procurement, structuring and plausibility check of medical data, digital claims settlement, data protection certification, and the development of prediction models and AI solutions in personal injury.

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INDUSTRY

• Insurance, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Cologne, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Client & Backend Development and UI/UX improvements   

TECHNOLOGIES

• React.js, Node.js, PHP, Laravel

Visit our client’s website: https://www.actineo.de/

a-tune software AG is a medium-sized international product company founded in 1998. They provide software, services and expertise in the area of Data Management and Compliance for laboratory R&D institutions (mainly biomedical). One of their main tech products is a management web app for tracking and analyzing of everything from blood sampling results to pharmaceutical and cosmetic studies on animals. It’s a software platform for the management of laboratory animal research results, research compliance protocols, workflows, and committees. The company is a certified IDBS partner with 15+ years of experience is supporting the needs of leading research driven organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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INDUSTRY

• Healthcare, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• Darmstadt, Germany
• Austin, Texas, USA
• UK, France, Australia

 BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for the development of Management Web App for Laboratory R&D Facilities

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET, Visual Basic

Visit our client’s website: https://www.a-tune.com/

Founded in 2000, secupay AG is a Pulsnitz-based BaFin-licensed institution that develops cashless payment solutions for online, mobile, and offline commerce. They offer an out-of-the-box smart, highly secure checkout software that integrates with online stores, marketplaces, mobile apps, EC terminals, social media channels, QR codes in print media, NFC in shop windows. Their solution supports cards, multichannel payment methods, vouchers, bonus points and coupons through a uniform API. Data security and server architecture is certified according to PCI DSS requirements.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, e-Commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Pulsnitz, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• GDPR-Compliant Development of the Antifraud Checkout Payment System

TECHNOLOGIES

• Yii1/Yii2, Symfony, PHP, API Gateway

Visit our client’s website: https://secupay.com/

Auditi GmbH is a Cloud and FinTech solutions provider from Germany founded in 2012 by highly-skilled auditors and IT experts. They now work in close cooperation with DATEV eG. Their main business course is providing law firms, auditors, and their end-clients with an easy-to-use cloud solution for the confirmation campaigns, taking into account IDW PS 302 and ISA 505 standards.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, Insurtech, Cloud Computing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Augmentation for the Enterprise Web App Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Rails Stack; StimulusJS; Redis; PostgreSQL; Client-Server, MVC

TEAM

• Full-Stack Engineers & Design Developers

Visit our client’s website: https://www.auditi.com/en/about-us/

Yasni is a free multilingual search engine dedicated to finding people on the web. As the world's most commonly used website for background checks on people, it pulls together all the publicly available information and search results, including images, videos, social networking Exposés and posts. Yasni website puts an end to multiple web searches. It lets you find everything about yourself, colleagues, friends, neighbors and business partners. Anyone can create a personal Yasni Exposé and customize their search results by adding even more web links, images, keywords or articles. With Yasni engine, you are also able to manage your personal reputation on the World Wide Web and differentiate yourself from others.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise Software, IT Services Providers

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Frankfurt am Main, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling Services 

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP, MySQL, SVN, Linux, Node.js, Big Data

Visit our client’s website: http://www.yasni.de/

rota is the software for professional duty planning and time recording in Austria and Germany. It’s an effective and cost-saving product for duty roster creation, time recording and personnel management. And also the perfect software for hotels and restaurants. Rota GmbH & Co KG is a competent development partner with over 15 years of experience.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise Software, IT Services Providers

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Obertrum am See, Austria

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling Services for Mobile & Backend Development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ionic, .NET

Visit our client’s website: https://www.rota-zeiterfassung.com/