DAC.digital

Collaborating with a leading European tech company specializing in sustainable trade to create Europe's largest B2B marketplace. This project involves building a dedicated, full-time, cross-technology team capable of developing a scalable solution to handle multiple transactions and systems. We aim to integrate merged companies into a highly scalable, high-performance platform, catering to a massive user base with millions of monthly visits and page views. Key Points: Cross-Technology Team: We will assemble a dedicated team comprising experts from various technological domains. This cross-functional team will be equipped to handle the complex requirements of the project, ensuring seamless collaboration across cloud, frontend, and backend technologies. Scalable Solution: Our focus is on developing a scalable solution that can efficiently handle multiple transactions and systems. Integrating various APIs, payment gateways, and other third-party systems seamlessly into the platform. The solution should be capable of accommodating future growth and increasing user demands. Integration of Merged Companies: The project requires integrating merged companies into the platform. This integration process demands meticulous planning and execution to ensure a smooth transition for the companies involved. The resulting platform must be highly scalable and capable of delivering exceptional performance. High Traffic and User Engagement: The B2B marketplace experiences substantial traffic, with all the sites and apps collectively receiving more than 5 million monthly visits and 80 million page views. Our solution should be designed to handle this high volume of traffic, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and user experience. PoC to Scalable Team: We began with a 1-person Proof of Concept (PoC) project to validate the chosen technologies. Based on the results and feedback, we conducted a technology workshop to refine and finalize the technology stack. As the project progressed, the team expanded to include over 40 members working across mixed technologies and product areas. Deliverables: Scalable B2B Marketplace Platform: A highly scalable and high-performance platform capable of handling multiple transactions and systems, integrating merged companies, and catering to millions of monthly visits and page views. Cross-Technology Team: A dedicated, full-time team with experts in the cloud (Azure), frontend (React), and backend (Kotlin/Java) technologies working collaboratively to deliver the project successfully. Seamless Integration: A smooth integration process for merged companies, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance. Timeline: The project was divided into milestones and followed an iterative development approach to accommodate evolving requirements. A detailed timeline was established during the planning phase, with regular progress updates and adjustments as needed.

Our team has been developing a video processing and rendering software with ball trajectory analysis for a mobile app aiming to gamify football training and penalty shots. We have provided support in developing the app’s backend, including vision processing and, to a lesser extent, AI/ML components, and provided a top-notch team to redesign and improve the mobile app itself. We have followed a DevOps methodology with CI/CD for mobile app and backend infrastructure. Problem. Need to promptly deliver a revamped version of the app based on a new UI design. The software was expected to facilitate a large number of concurrent users, which required full scalability. Lack of internal tech resources on the client’s end. Looking for a team with competencies across a broad spectrum of skills – including mobile development, backend, video and image processing, AI/ML, and the ability to package all these skills together. Previously choosing a partner that failed to deliver expected results and caused a go-to-market delay. Unmaintainable, messy code with no versioning scheme. Solution. Initially, performing detective work to find the most recent version of the app, fixed all burning issues, and deployed the app again to the testers to create a baseline. Cleaning up the code and redesigning the application based on the new designs. Bringing the backend in order based on established good practices – decoupling environment, creating a separate development and production infrastructure, setting up proper DevOps infrastructure in Azure context as well as setting up the CI/CD pipelines for mobile app Setting up a dedicated team tackling the image analysis aspects of the app. Developing the product in line with the Sport’s Computing Product Owner cooperation. Process. The services are performed by DAC.digital developers chosen to form an interdisciplinary, independent team. The core areas of support were based on Data Science with Python and Image Analysis knowledge and experience and DevOps support and were aligned during the so-called “Block Planning Sessions” or prioritized and assigned to our team via email. The initial collaboration began with KickerAce mobile app development and further collaboration on Shot Analyzer software.