Scalamandra

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Co-founder of The Startup Studio. We help startups solve their digital problems like software and application development and help students get experience on these projects

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Scalamandra for consulting and software development.

SOLUTION

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

I got to know this company through Clutch and was interested in their profile. They seemed to me to be suitable because they meet our criteria and they have expertise in Scala, interestingly our first project was not to do with Scala, we did a small test project first.

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

We work on an ongoing basis in different directions. For example, the last work was related to the UI & UX audit for website.

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

- CEO; - CTO; - software engineers; - UI/UX designer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were really happy with the results we got - the team was really professional and quick to turn the task around

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

Everything was planned in advance and completed on time. We communicate through Google Meets, Zoom, Gmail and Telegram(Eastern European WhatsApp).

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

The team is really professional and want to do each job really well. They are ambitious and talented and from the very beginning we communicated very well. Each problem we gave, a solution was proposed and it made it very easy to work with them.

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

We’re pleased with the direction of cooperation and look forward to continued work with the team.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Founded in 1989, ScienceSoft is a US-headquartered provider of IT consulting services and custom software development. Among our customers are Walmart, IBM, Nestle, eBay and NASA JPL, as well as many other large and midsize organizations located internationally. My position is Partnership Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Ongoing support & development of back-end application logic written on Scala

SOLUTION

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

We were short of Scala resource in-house, were recommended to get in touch with Scalamandra

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

Back-End development: Implement new features and modules, legacy code support, modules architecture, modules API design, DB schema architecture. Tech stack: Akka-HTTP, Akka-Actors (both typed and untyped), Scala, OracleDB, Slick, OpenAPI.

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

1 Scala Developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The development of the project is moving according to plan and the end-users receive new useful functionality, and support of the application.

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

Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams. Agile software development under the hood, with strictly defined requirements.

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

Working with them has been one of those rare experiences as a partnership manager; I can't remember anything bad. Everything goes as promised.

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

It would be great for them to expand their development capacity and have more Scala developers available.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Partnerships Manager at the IT company being a partner with the world's leading brands to design, develop and launch apps, chat, and voice conversational AI experiences across a multitude of channels.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We were looking for Java/Scala and NodeJS developer, someone with MySQL, Elasticsearch, NestJS, and Cassandra experience.

SOLUTION

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

We chose Scalamandra because they specialize in the development software of the Scala language. They have expertise in the technologies we need.

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

We were looking for Java/Scala and NodeJS developer, someone with MySQL, Elasticsearch, NestJS, and Cassandra experience. First priority was to take some immediate enhancement requests we had commitments for on our backend services in NodeJS (using the NestJS library) - that involved developing restful APIs, working with MySQL and Cassandra - in addition, they helped us maintain an old Scala project that requires support.

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

Backend Scala/Node.js developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Backlog completed on time.

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

The work is done according to Agile. Management tool - Jira. Communication - Slack.

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

Their ability to deal with non-standard cases is outstanding.

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

During our collaboration, there weren't any major issues or challenges that we couldn't tackle during the process.