CodeSeek

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CFO of a software company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We develop and operate an IIOT-Platform (Industrial Internet of Things) that allows factory operators to keep track of every part of their value chain, regardless of the manufacturer and specifications of their machinery. Our main business model is SaaS but our platform can also be hosted on-site.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Fixing bugs in the front end
• Developing new visualizations
• Implementing bespoke features for our clients
• Redesign of most of our front-end

SOLUTION

How did you find CodeSeek?

Online Search

Why did you select CodeSeek over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Fexibility to adjust to requirements

How many teammates from CodeSeek were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The scope of the work is the following:

• Fix bugs in the currently version of our product
• Develop new features
• Extensive redesign of the way that navigation works within our product

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

As I write this, we are only about 50 days into our collaboration with CodeSeek, so many of the tasks we have planned have not been completed yet. However, we are very pleased with the developer's in-depth front-end expertise. He independently fixes bugs in our front-end and refactors our code as he works his way through our code-base, improving the performance of our app and building a foundation for future advancements.

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

CodeSeek has always delivered on time. Both our account manager as well as the developer communicate clearly, reliably, and timely.

What was your primary form of communication with CodeSeek?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Our goals require both front-end and back-end expertise. In the first stage, it skews more towards front end, whereas in the second stage, both front-end and back-end expertise will be required. CodeSeek offers us an arrangement where we can have an experienced frontend specialist and dedicated backend developers working full-time on our project or pitching in as needed to reach our goals.

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

Not at the moment.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am an executive at Biz.CS we are professional, quality software boutique that provides internet and software services to the business market, startups, entrepreneurs and companies. Our boutique is focused on top quality services that would help turn your company to the best in its field.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeSeek, and what were your goals?

We required to add new features and upgrade front-end from our project that is currently in use from AngularJS to newer version of Angular.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We had an intensive interview period for this project, but when we contacted CodeSeek we were impressed with communication, availability and recent experience that was helpful in our project.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

When we started we needed to recreate clone of old system and fill it with new features and on this part everything was fantastic, they did responsive design and tested application on several real devices to make sure everything works the best. Afterwards we needed to migrate bigger part of system that was hard tied with games inside of application under close deadline. CodeSeek provided fantastic communication and empathy, they brought solution that helped us to meet all deadlines and even have time for testing application.  

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We started working with CEO Oleg and Front-end developer Ruslan, afterwards CTO was also on several calls and helped with several architectural decisions that made a great improve in our progress. Currently we expanded team on one more Front-end developer and working close with them.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We had a great challenge with project and CodeSeek successfully achieved all targets and even extended team. Our expectations were not only met, but either exceed.  

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Everything was great and successfully, we are very happy with our cooperation and that we could find great vendors

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

Working with CodeSeek is really easy; they are professionals who know what they're doing. Also, they are continuously improving and extending. 

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

We didn't spotted anything for this time what they could improve, everything was great

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Head of Business Development and Partnerships

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeSeek, and what were your goals?

We were looking for a strong partner in our team augmentation, we required proactive developers that will deep dive into a large project and fit with all security aspects. Our main requirement was quality and these guys went even beyond it.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We found CodeSeek on the local market and from the first touch we understood that it's a full match of our cultural vision and requirements, guy helped us with a detailed overview of the position and created several options to move with. One year after we are fully satisfied with their work and looking forward to expanding our cooperation

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We were looking for a strong Senior developer on one of our main customers that required a Full-Stack developer to support development on first stages, but afterward, get a leading role on the project. CodeSeek made professional requirement analysis and based on deadlines and budget resulted in several candidates. Currently, we are working with this developer and we are fully satisfied.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We were working with Oleg and their recruitment department, we found a professional and detailed Senior developer that is currently leading development on one of our teams. Currently, we are working with Oleg and the developer directly.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We found a full match of the required resources, our development fully passed on him and he is doing a great job by team-leading developers in the team.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Pretty smooth and professional

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

From the start of our cooperation communication was made via messengers or video calls, they are answering without delay all questions. They’ve been a pleasure to work with overall.

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

Didn't spot. Their services are provided with great quality in mind.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of Syndeo CX. We provide a conversational messaging platform optimized for customer experience utilising best-of-class tooling and Ai.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeSeek, and what were your goals?

At Syndeo, our staff have decades of experience in CX solution consultancy and product design. However, our roadmap is so full of features that we did not have the capacity to deliver to market needs in a timeline that we were happy with. We sought a partnership to help bring the vision to fruition.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Syndeo only hires the best consultants and developers to achieve our vision of providing the best conversational CX platform in the world. These high standards applied to any partnership that we undertook to deliver the best possible platform. Many companies were investigated and interviewed and CodeSeek was selected based on skills and ability to deliver.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

CodeSeek integrated into our development team and agile processes completely. They participated in requirements gathering, design, development, review, testing and deployment providing invaluable expertise at every level. Deliverables were provided as expected each day, each sprint, each iteration. Technologies utilised were across the entire platform, including but not limited to, Java, Springboot, Javascript, Typescript, Angular, Kafka, Elastic, Postgres, Redis, Selenium, Docker, Linux, AWS.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

CodeSeek provided 1 Senior Software Engineer and 1 QA Engineer into our development team. They worked with existing developers seamlessly inside our scrum team and we are investigating scaling up further.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Since CodeSeek joined our team our platform is both more robust and more feature rich. Our ability to seamlessly scale up/down depending on load has increased dramatically, efficiencies were also made to various micro-services increasing capacity before auto-scaling comes into effect. Further, core CX features have added conversational abilities to our A.i and state-machine that allow more personalised and realistic user interactions.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

CodeSeek participated in our daily stand-ups, ticket grooming sessions, sprint planning and roadmap reviews. All necessary work was appropriately logged to Trello, GitHub and ZenHub in a timely manner. Communication was continuous and consistent via Slack.

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

The Syndeo Platform uses a wide range of technologies to provide the best quality and value to our customers and their customers. Consequently, we did not expect CodeSeek to be proficient in each from the beginning. However, their ability to get up to speed on any required technologies, including best practices and recommendations was a pleasant and welcome surprise.

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

As with any team, sometimes features may take longer than anticipated but any estimates that were too low at point of grooming were quickly raised and rectified with appropriate rescheduling and planning occurring. Often this was counter-balanced by different tickets coming under estimate but raising any problems mid-sprint was always taken at the earliest opportunity.

Consequently, I can say that no area for improvement was noticed as even if anything went wrong, it was put right with appropriate urgency.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of an Event Software company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeSeek, and what were your goals?

We have an ongoing relationship with CodeSeek where they deliver web development, primarily frontend / Angular.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We found each other on a freelancing platform and decided to continue working together after the initial tasks were completed.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Continuous development of new features for our Angular SPA

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

1, Front end developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We are very happy with the deliverables in general.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We communicate daily via Slack, Zoom and Gitlab. The communication is a mix of asynchronous (chat) and face-to-face meetings over video calls.

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

They have their customers well being and satisfaction as first priority. Responds often outside of normal working ours.

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

Not that I can think of right now.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the owner of Retama Software Solutions company

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeSeek, and what were your goals?

We needed urgently a Java Spring Boot developer for replacement in the project team. The goal was quick onboarding and develop the required backend and still be on the time with the launch date

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We found them on the web. The communication was very good, clear and honest, which is very important for us.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The project was an online outdoor game (based on tablets), sort of treasure hunt, made for a visitor center of a local municipality. Codeseek joined the project after the initial planning phase and frontend markup, and helped complete the backend part and integration with the frontend developer.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

One Java Spring Boot developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The project was delivered on time although Codeseek joined after the initial phase. They understood and managed to get on track quickly, which was impressive.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Daily sprint meetings, communication using Slack and JIRA

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

They really made a big effort on finding the right developer for us and giving him good onboarding from their side.

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

Get us more developers :) We are continuing to the next project