Svitla Systems

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Former Department Director of Quanterix

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Develops an ultra-sensitive digital immunoassay platform

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Svitla Systems to accomplish?

Pre-screened and provided candidates for staff augmentation roles: 

• product
• quality
• engineering
• project management

SOLUTION

How did you find Svitla Systems?

Online Search

Why did you select Svitla Systems over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit

How many teammates from Svitla Systems were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Provided key roles in designing, building, and testing a digital platform managing samples and data within an immunoassay device.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Every two weeks, progress was measured for delivering functionality, testing the functionality, and fixing any bugs. Svitla excelled in each of these 3 metrics throughout the project.

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

The project used Agile Scrum with two-week sprints. 

What was your primary form of communication with Svitla Systems?

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

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

Our team was based in Ukraine, so we were impressed with how they maintained productivity, quality, and communication while their country was at war.

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

We were very happy with Svitla's performance.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Vice President of Engineering of Intrepid Networks

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Intrepid Networks provides critical operational support to both government and commercial organizations so that team members can instantaneously communicate, collaborate, and coordinate.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Svitla Systems to accomplish?

• Needed an experienced Node.JS developer to supplement existing team

SOLUTION

How did you find Svitla Systems?

Referral

Why did you select Svitla Systems over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Svitla Systems were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

We had an extensive Node.JS project and we needed to backfill a developer who was very experienced in Node.JS. This project is for a major client, and has a tight deadline and we couldn't afford to be short-staffed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Final delivery to the customer. This project is still ongoing.

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

The contractor has integrated with out team. Even with the time difference, he has adjusted to be able to attend our daily scrums, and is now considered part of the Team.

What was your primary form of communication with Svitla Systems?

Virtual Meeting

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

They found a great fit in a very short amount of time, as well as coming in under budget. Communication has been great, as well as ongoing communications!

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

They have been great to work with, nothing that I can think of that I would change.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Senior Manager, Program Management of Invenco by GVR

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Invenco is a global provider of self-service payment solutions including outdoor payment terminals (OPT), electronic payment servers, and cloud services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Svitla Systems to accomplish?

• Leadership of Agile Release Trains

SOLUTION

How did you find Svitla Systems?

Referral

Why did you select Svitla Systems over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Svitla Systems were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

SAFe Release Train Engineering:

• Lead and manage agile release train, 
• lead agile scrum teams in software development, 
• manage multiple teams in agile software development,
• lead PI Planning, 
• track PI deliverables status, 
• Conduct standard agile ceremonies with multiple teams.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Teams are consistently meeting milestones, are capable of functioning independently, multiple teams work together seamlessly, development teams are maturing and increasing their development capacity and velocity with every quarter. The RTE exceed their role responsibilities by taking on extra work such as mentoring, training material development, status reporting, process gap identification and resolution, etc.

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

The RTE's have strong project Management skills. They are very experienced in agile software development and know how to lead teams to deliver to committed milestones and deliverables.

What was your primary form of communication with Svitla Systems?

Virtual Meeting

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

Customer service from Svitla is excellent. The Account Managers are very responsible, screen candidates to provide high quality candidates to meet my need. The follow-up is excellent, frequent but not intrusive. Svitla conducts performance reviews on all of their contractors and requests that I conduct performance reviews on the contractors on my teams reporting the results back to Svitla.

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

None at this time. I appreciate the high-quality company that Svitla Systems is.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of (a/an) Software

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

SaaS provider in EdTech

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Svitla Systems to accomplish?

• Staffing our frontend team
• Staffing our backend team

SOLUTION

How did you find Svitla Systems?

Referral

Why did you select Svitla Systems over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

What was the size of Svitla Systems’s team?

6-10 Employees

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

Svitla team has worked with us to augment our frontend and backend teams. Team members hired through Svitla are integrated fully with our global team and work directly with our product and design team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Staffed team with onboarded team members delivering on our product roadmap

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

We do not use Svitla for project management. We hire engineers, and they work within our version of scrum and agile.

What was your primary form of communication with Svitla Systems?

Virtual Meeting

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

They allow us to interview candidates and respect our hiring criteria. They work with us to replace when it is not working out. They take good care of people themselves and make it easier for us to retain talent.

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

I would love to have more senior engineer hiring through this vendor however it has been difficult to hire beyond mid-level engineers.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm an Engineering Manager overseeing the engineering efforts of a large scale security product

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Svitla Systems?

The world of vulnerability research is really complex - we collect and build a significant amount of data about known and emerging, vulnerabilities that often requires review, correct, or verification.

SOLUTION

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

Svitla came to us with several great candidates who had prior cybersecurity and we selected them.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

We developed a research team and built processes and tools for our research to team to help them review, correct, or verify critical data.

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

We have had one full-time researcher from Svitla for 2.5 years.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

With the help of Svitla, we've compiled one of the most complete datasets in our field.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very. Svitla is very independent and is able to complete their portion of the project with limited intervention.

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

We've really enjoyed working with our contractor from Svitla. They are quick to learn, have a good amount of domain knowledge, and have been very thorough.

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

For our needs, no.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a department head of a company working in the field of digital video marketing & video production. We have 8 offices across Europe.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Svitla helped us building an internal CRM application to manage customer data, customer agreements and performance/campaign data. The application allowed people to view & manage all customer-related data in an easy and effective way and with less human mistakes due to the integrated e-sign processes.

SOLUTION

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

The deciding factor to work with Svitla is their expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and very quick interview process.

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

Svitla developers took active part in developing multiple modules of the application from scratch, covering the functionality with automated tests, refactoring and implementing performance improvements to various parts of the application.

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

There were 3 people working with us:

• 2 senior backend developers (Ruby, Ruby on Rails)
• a senior frontend developer (React.js, TypeScript)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project was launched on time and is being used inside of the company for almost 2 years, helping people to reduce manual work & human mistakes. We continue working with Svitla on other projects and also on maintaining the existing solution.

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

We are working with the development team directly as a part of our team. The communication with the team happens via company's communication apps and emails. The project management is done in Asan, reviews of changes to the code are done on GitHub.

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

The interview process with software developers is very quick and effective, we were able to find suitable candidates for the project in 2 weeks.

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

We were more than happy to continue working with Svitla Systems.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

IT company in the logistics sector. My position is CTO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Svitla Systems?

We hired Svitla for driving our core product.

What were your goals for this project?

Driving the core product. Scale up the team.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

A few vendors contacted us. We checked them and contacted some. Then we chose the one with the best contact behaviour and customer service.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Extending the development and dev ops team.

What was the team composition?

Team of developers in our offices, one remote developer, one remote dev ops person.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management is done on our side. It went well.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They have a very good system of pre-screening candidates. Svitla finds new people very fast.

Are there any areas for improvement?

When screening candidates, also look for pro-activity and very good English skills.