Dreamix

Please describe your company and your position there.

Position - Head of Product Organisation - British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Description - The BBFC is independent and not-for-profit, and we’re here to help everyone in the UK choose age-appropriate films, videos and websites, wherever and however they watch or use them.

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

Use machine learning and AI to optimise BBFC services

How did you select Dreamix and what were the deciding factors?

Impressed with their deep understanding of machine learning models and artificial intelligent solutions. Fantastic work ethic and worked hard to understand our organisations needs.

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

The scope of our project was to use machine learning models and techniques to make the most of our data to optimise our services. The project is largely confidential with a patent pending.

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

Hristo T. - Partner, Manager at Dreamix and Georgi Y. - Partner at Dreamix

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

Dreamix have kept us updated throughout the project, been open about any challenges faced, and gone above and beyond to deliver the agreed scope. They have worked with us to patent our solution.

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

Dreamix have been open about any challenges faced throughout the project, they have communicated well with our team, they've provided timeline estimates.

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

They have a deep understanding of machine learning models and artificial intelligence solutions.

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

We've been really impressed with Dreamix and look forward to continuing to work with them.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We re-platform Mainframe applications to the cloud. We have mainframe language compilers and runtime services to enable legacy languages, COBOL, PL/1, JCL etc to run cloud native.

I am Director of EMEA , with responsibility for Product Management, Sales, Partner Enablement

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

Developing our core compiler products and tooling and runtime around this. We create compiler technology with extremely complex technical challenges and we needed highly specialized 10x programmers to solve these challenges

What were your goals for this project?

To build a co-located team that could extend our current product set with new features. We also have a roadmap of new products and languages and wanted to build technical competence to be able to work in these new areas.

How did you select this vendor?

We had previous experience of working with Bulgarian companies and found the people to be of extremely high quality with great character. Our focus quickly narrowed down to Dreamix when we read some reviews and our initial contact points were incredibly efficient and just give us a confidence in their competence

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Our product is built in C and Java and we have a devops environment comprising, Jenkins, Makefiles, Git, Mercurial, Python, PHP. We also expect our people to work with modern languages but understand Mainframe systems and languages.

Dreamix supplied high quality people that could master the entire Stack of technologies. Initially starting with code fixes, the dreamix team quickly progressed to building out new features and suggesting improvements to not just our products but also our development processes.

What was the team composition?

We started with 2 people, quickly added a 3rd and have a plan to continually add people to the team over the next year

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Our product was built to move z/OS mainframe applications to the cloud. The dreamix team added added a whole new mainframe environment, DOS/VSE, to our product in less than 6 months.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We communicate multiple times a day using slack and have daily scrum calls. We supplement this with occasional onsite visits to share and transfer knowledge. Heirloom has been built with a remote development workforce so there was very little change for us to work with a new team remotely.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Technical capabilities are a given, but the character and integrity of all the people that we work with and have met at Dreamix are of the highest order.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Dreamix have actually been a source/driver for improving our own internal communications and staff facilities.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We help insurance companies and insurance brokers to do data migrations, conversions and improve their data quality. I am the managing partner in direct communication with the developers in the role of product owner.

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

We developed the first version of our policy migration, conversion and quality improvement application ourselves. But getting further we needed more development capacity that was not available in our country.

What were your goals for this project?

The solution had to be flexible, so it could adjust to different customer needs and auditable, so that we could trace back all changes and why they were made.

How did you select this vendor?

We started by selecting companies near the good technical universities. Selected about 20 companies, that we wrote to have a discussion with a lead programmer, review some code that they made and evaluated their pricing model. Based on that analysis we created a shortlist of three companies that I visited. During the visit we interviewed the management team and the developers, which lead to the final selection of our software development partner.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

The Apollon application is a configurable application in which you can import and export insurance data in a flexible format. On the data in the system business rules can be executed to identify issues and update fields (also based on external data sources). The data can also be manually improved by users via a configurable user interface. The application is fully fuctional and working for multiple customers. We are currently working on improving our customer onboarding process and improving the way that the business rules can be defined by customers.

What was the team composition?

The development team consists of 4 developers, assisted by architects and subject matter experts within Dreamix that are external to the core development team. The core developmentteam consists of two senior developers, a medior and a junior developer.

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

For two months we are doing an active acquisition of new insurance broker companies. After 15 visits to companies, more than 80% of them are very positive and want to be onboard. The customers that we have currently got are very satisfied with the solution and especially with the speed that changes are implemented in the application.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The team is self-directing, based on the scrum methodology. Responsibility for the sprint items are not put on a single developer but are always the responsibility of the team. This has been proven very effective for me.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I would definitely say the culture that they implemented throughout the entire company. It's a caring and sharing culture that is managed internally as well as externally and to their customers (or partners as they like to call). The developers are all really motivated and are encouraged to dive deep, not only technical but also in understanding the customer processes and business needs.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I am very happy with the way that we are collaborating at the moment. Dreamix is always open to suggestions and is willing to put the effort into implementing the suggestions.

Please describe your company and your position there.

scheduling/automation of RSS feeds to Twitter

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

rebuilt backend; built new features

What were your goals for this project?

I initially hired Dreamix to fix a major bug that was causing Twibble web application to shut down every week or so. Moreover, the users were unable to log in. Massive db problems due to Elasticsearch. Basically nothing worked and the entire backend had to be rebuilt.

How did you select this vendor?

I met Stoyan Mitov in San Francisco who introduced me to the team and I became convinced they were a great dev team.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

When they joined, they started debugging, scrutinizing through the code and system. It appeared that Elasticsearch was used as a database which was a problem because Elastic doesn't support ACID transactions. In short, it led to no guarantee that Twitter's authentication token will be available when someone wants to login.

We fixed the many memory issues one by one, moved the database to MySQL and the web app started to operate smoothly. After the fix, Dreamix team started working on new features and was responsible for the support.

What was the team composition?

2 Senior Fullstack Devs

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

The backend rebuild was a success; Twibble grew to 5x its original revenue within 2 years of their work; ended up in the top google search results for RSS to Twitter and similar

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

heavy reliance on slack, asana

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were dedicated, and they had raw talent. They also had a personal passionate interest in our company

Are there any areas for improvement?

Heavier reliance, and stricter adherence to, Asana project management; implementing Trello or similar would have been helpful as well

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the co-founder and president of PLOTAGRAPH, Inc. We build digital imagery tools for artists, brands, and agencies.

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

My company hired Dreamix for the continued development of our SaaS platform and iOS apps.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to develop our software and add more features.

How did you select this vendor?

After an extensive interview process with many vendors, Dreamix was by far the best choice for us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Dreamix develops our SaaS and app offerings.  

What was the team composition?

We work with multiple teams on various projects.

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Our software and apps required a lot of clean up, and Dreamix took immediate action. They have handled everything.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Dreamix has exceeded our expectations in every way.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their customer service is by far the best we have ever seen. An added bonus is their impeccable English.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There isn't anything that comes to mind.