Brightgrove

PlutoTV is a cutting-edge ad-supported free online television service from California backed by world-known investors. The company offers an exclusive TV and video-on-demand streaming portal that runs seamlessly on desktop, web & mobile apps, smart television, internet-connected TV platforms, and devices. You can choose from 250+ free TV channels and thousands of movies, TV shows, news, sports, and more. With a monthly average of 22M viewers as of February 2020, the service keeps expanding its network and availability further around the globe.

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INDUSTRY

• Entertainment; AdTech; Enterprise Software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Los Angeles, USA

MARKET OUTREACH

• Worldwide: USA, Canada, UK, Europe

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled a Full-Stack Scrum Team that meets the highest industry standards and client’s requirements.
2. Delivered full-scale development and QA services that helped the client to expand their presence across all digital devices/platforms and speed up the launch of the service on a global arena.
3. Migrated client’s software from Monolithic to Microservices architecture.
4. Participated in BI analysis, mobile & web & backend development.
5. Scaled the monetization algorithms by creating an internal analytical tool to track user engagement stats, target audience behavior, and time spent metrics.

PLATFORMS

• Connected TV Devices – Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Google Chromecast, Roku TV, PS 3/4
• Smart Televisions – Sony, Samsung, Visio TV
• Web
• Desktop Apps – Windows, MacOS
• Mobile Apps – iOS, Android

TECHNOLOGIES

• Amazon Suite; TypeScript; MongoDB; ES, JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Express, Redis

TEAM SIZE

• 50 engineers (Client, Backend, QA, BA, Full-Stack, Scrum Master)

Visit our client’s website: https://pluto.tv/

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Streamlabs is a Logitech International S.A. software development company that builds tools and software products for live streaming purposes. Their software allows content creators to engage with their fans, monetize their broadcasts, and grow their channels. Being a top streaming platform for Twitch, YouTube, & Facebook, Streamlabs is a leader in a fun and exploding industry. 

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INDUSTRY

• Entertainment, Esports, Gaming, Enterprise Software, Livestreaming

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• San Francisco, California, USA
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling services with relocation support

Visit our client’s websites:

https://streamlabs.com

https://www.logitech.com/en-us

Founded in 1847, Siemens AG is a German multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in Munich. With more than 385,000 employees worldwide, it’s the largest technology manufacturing company in Europe with numerous offices abroad. Their primary focus divisions are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities. The company is well-known for the production of various medical diagnostics equipment; buildings-related products; driving and automation tools; industrial plant-related and energy-related products; lighting equipment; fire alarms; PLM software; and products for the transportation and logistics industry.

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INDUSTRY

• Energy & Power, Manufacturing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Munich, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• Worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for a Classified Development Project

Visit our client’s website: https://new.siemens.com/global/en.html

With HQ in Germany, Robert Bosch GmbH is a globally-known multinational engineering and cutting-edge technology company with 130+ years of industry expertise. It’s the world’s leading manufacturer of vehicle hardware and software, automotive components, consumer goods, and industrial tools, system solutions for plants, connected energy and building products, and IoT-enabled power tools. Their products are used on every continent by both the machinery manufacturers and end-users.

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INDUSTRY

• Energy & Power, Manufacturing, IoT

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Gerlingen, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• 150 countries worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Native mobile app development for IoT-enabled power tools (iOS & Android)

TECHNOLOGIES

• iOS SDK, Android SDK, BLE, Java, Objective-C

HRS GmbH is a family-run company established in Cologne in 1972 as a travel agency. Now it’s a reputable hotel reservation provider with 1500+ employees in 16 countries worldwide. Our partner is one of the global market leaders in tech- and Big Data driven travel solutions. Their client list includes 3000+ hotels, restaurants, and retail companies globally. The company provides over 300,000 accommodations in 190+ countries for business and private travelers. They make travelers’ life easier with their own smart, modern, and convenient free software products that allow all customers to book quickly and easily.

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INDUSTRY

• Hospitality & Travel, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• HQ: Cologne, Germany
• Globally: 35 offices in 16 countries

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Gathered up a Full-Stack Scrum Team for end-to-end development of several products related to real-time analytical solutions (hotel booking) and AWS cloud-based enterprise architecture.
2. Provided critical migration of the legacy code onto the modern tech stack.
3. Maintenance and support of the client’s existing systems.
4. Set up CI/CD pipelines and QA flow.

TECHNOLOGIES

• АWS, JavaScript, Java, React, Python, SpringBoot, Node.js, SQL, Rest/JSON, Swagger, JAX-WS, Maven, Gradle, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Gerrit, IntelliJ, UML, JIRA, Confluence, Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch

TEAM SIZE

• 18 experts (PM/Scrum Master, Product Managers, Certified AWS Solution Architects, Tech Leads, Data Engineers, Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA Automation)

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

NY-based Real Estate Listings Exchange Platform

RealPlus, LLC is a company with vast experience in the real estate, data, and listing systems that has been providing tech solutions to the New York City real estate industry since 1984. For many years, they were the first and only service that offered electronic interchange of exclusive listings data for Manhattan-based brokerages. They developed a digital listings exchange system currently used by the city. The system transmits up to the minute inventory between the firms. It has grown from 10 firms and 300 listings exchanged daily up to 500 firms and around 10k listings exchanged daily.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• New York, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Set up a Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA
2. The legacy system was hard to support and expand with the codebase that was highly difficult to change. So, we've outlined the new tech stack, new platform’s architecture, and its fundamental modules to start the redevelopment process. 
3. Fully migrated the project to Azure DevOps to automate and speed up the development and set up effective collaboration among distributed team members.
4. Optimized the legacy database.
5. Set up the CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
6. Created all supporting documentation for the new application.
7. Replaced the outdated project management methodology that didn’t allow flexibility and scalability of the development processes.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, Angular, Fuse, ElasticSearch, Elmah.io, Azure DevOps, Swagger, NLog, NgRx, RxJS, TypeScript

TEAM SIZE

• 17 engineers (Full-Stack, Mockup Designer, Tech Lead, UI/UX, Frontend, Database Administrators, QA Engineers, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://realplusonline.com/  

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is an award-winning, leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, legal, and other related services. Founded in 1845, they grew into a multinational professional services network and became one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Currently, it’s the largest services network in the world by revenue and number of employees (312,000+). Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies.

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INDUSTRY

• Logistics, Retail

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• HQ: London, United Kingdom

MARKET OUTREACH

• Worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Enterprise Web App Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ruby, HTML, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grape, Azure

TEAM SIZE

• 7 engineers (QA, Client, Backend, Scrum Master)

Visit our client’s website: https://www2.deloitte.com/global/   

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Founded in 2005, Aginity is one of the leading analytics management service providers. They offer the world's only integrated SQL analytics management software that empowers data analysts, engineers and scientists, and business users to find, manage, share, and re-use analytics. The product is divided into Pro and Team versions that allow you to improve the analytics quality and consistency, reduce analytics development cost by 20-30%, deliver innovations with advanced analytics and machine learning, increase analytic accuracy and reliability. This active analytic catalog supports 13 popular databases and is currently being used by 3,000+ businesses worldwide.

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INDUSTRY

• BI, AI, Data Analytics, Enterprise Software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Evanston, USA

 BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Set up and retained a Full-Stack Development Team that became an extension of the client’s business and boosted their staff scalability.
2. Developed and delivered in time several versions of the Enterprise Analytics Management Platform.
3. The product solves the issue of data availability consistency and helps produce analytic results faster. It automates such data processing stages as 1) Data Federation; 2) Data Analysis via Execution Engine; 3) Data Publication.
4. The developed Analytics Platform integrates with any warehouse and the deployment easily runs on any cloud solution.

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java and Scala; TypeScript, JavaScript, React; Docker Swarm and Kubernetes; Apache Spark;
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud;
• Microservices; Monolithic;
• Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Hive, IBM, Oracle.

TEAM SIZE

• 40 experts (Client & Backend, QA, DevOps, Designers, Data Scientists, Data Architects, Big Data engineers, PM)

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Vimcar GmbH is an award-winning manufacturer of IoT car tracking devices and software that are directly integrated with a car’s onboard monitoring system via the ODB protocol plug and allow collecting in-depth information about road trips and car’s technical parameters. The client’s products digitize end-users' fleet from logbooks to vehicle management and location regardless of whether there are 1 or 200 vehicles, thereby eliminating manual workload, and saving costs.

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INDUSTRY

• IoT, Transportation

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-cycle Native Mobile Apps Development (IoT-enabled)

TECHNOLOGIES

• Android SDK, Java, REST, HTTPS, BLE, SSL, Objective-C

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (iOS & Android, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://vimcar.de/

Founded in 2001, Synovia Solutions, LLC provides high-quality fleet management software that improves the safety of vehicles and passengers with more affordable GPS tracking that eliminates up-front costs for new clients. Synovia’s complex, high-loaded GPS-enabled system currently tracks over 124,000 vehicles for the largest American school districts, some of the most dynamic school bus contractors, small-town districts, and specialty student fleets. Acquired by CalAmp in 2019, Synovia continues to evolve its product to better serve more schools and families with an improved selection of tools and solutions for fleet intelligence.

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INDUSTRY

• Logistics, Transportation

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Indianapolis, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Implementation, support & maintenance of manual and automation QA flow  

TECHNOLOGIES

• MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, RDCM, Redis, Microsoft SSMS and Visual Studio, Datadog, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Postman, Octopus Deploy, MobaXTerm, Docker Portainer

TEAM

• QA engineers (Scrum)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.synoviasolutions.com/   

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Quoka GmbH is a German trio of free and easy-to-use online marketplace and free interactive mobile apps for sellers and buyers, in any field from job offerings and services to pets, real estate, and handmade products. The company started as local advertising newspapers in 1983 and has grown into the top web portal for classified advertising regionally.

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INDUSTRY

• Retail, E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Mannheim, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled and retained a Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA that reports directly to the Product Owner on the German side.
2. Successfully integrated Scrum Methodology from scratch and taught the client’s team to use it.
3. Moved the legacy results of the client’s 30+ years in business into Amazon Cloud.
4. Set up stable and all-in-one QA flow that increased development and testing productivity of the client’s in-house team.
5. Handled a complex modernization of the legacy web portal and mobile apps, which required a wide range of upgrades and up-to-date tech stack implementation.

TECHNOLOGIES

• AWS Suite, REST API, Java, NodeJS, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, MongoDB, MySQL, Kubernetes, Helm, Codeception, Composer, Terraform, VueJS; CQRS, Event Sourcing; Git; Spring Framework, Spring Boot; Microservices

TEAM SIZE

• 10 engineers (Client, Backend, QA, UI/UX)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.quoka.de/ 

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Payback GmbH is a multi-partner loyalty program and multichannel worldwide marketing platform from Germany. Their secure, and reliable software combines and customizes e-coupons, loyalty, and mobile payments. With over 20 years of experience in the market and 31M+ customers, the company empowers businesses to run integrated campaigns via their offline, online & mobile solutions that lead to up-selling, cross-selling, customer acquisition and (re)activation, image and brand building. Their mobile app’s user base crossed almost 10M active users in 2020.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, ePayments, Marketing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Munich, Germany

MARKET OUTREACH

• Germany, Poland, India, Mexico, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Backend development and custom mobile payment gateway integration
2. Set up seamless and efficient Agile communication and development flow with high productivity.
3. Integrated a stable mobile payment gateway within the project’s budget and timeframe.
4. Increased the level of backend security and overall quality by integrating modern tech stack and covering the development process with autotests.
5. Ensured continuous features development and support for the existing solutions.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, ASP.NET WEB.API, Entity Framework Core, Angular, Elastic Search, Microservices

Visit our client’s website: https://www.payback.net/de/home/

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Bolt Financial, Inc. is a cutting-edge FinTech startup from San Francisco that provides end-clients with a better-than-Amazon checkout software in the cloud with an in-built ‘zero fraud’ protection. They empower established and growing retailers to convert and retain their clients via digitally improved customer experience. Their mobile-ready e-commerce checkout plugins come with incorporated sales analysis, guaranteed covering of any fraud losses, and the checkout time reduced from more than 1 minute to 30 seconds.

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INDUSTRY

• Retail & E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• San Francisco, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Augmentation for FinTech Development and QA

TECHNOLOGIES

• JavaScript/TypeScript, Selenium Webdriver, Webdriverio, Node.js, React, PHP, Golang, MySQL, CircleCI, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Testrail, Browserstack, DataDog, Postman;
• Magento, WooCommerce, Shopify, Salesforce, Visa, AmEx validators.

TEAM SIZE

• 10 experts (Integration & QA Automation Engineers, Tech Project Manager)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.bolt.com/

FreshBooks is a global tech company that offers all-in-one easy, fast, and secure invoicing and accounting cloud-based web & mobile software for small business entrepreneurs, teams, and accountants. The platform integrates with Stripe, Bench, GSuite, Hubspot, Dropbox, Gusto, and other apps. Over 24M+ self-employed professionals, firms, and agencies use this solution to handle invoices, receipts, tax reports, bookkeeping, professional financial reports, online payments, track business expenses, and manage projects.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, Accounting

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Toronto, Canada

MARKET OUTREACH

• 160+ countries worldwide

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Set up a Scrum team for Native Mobile Development and QA.
2. Updated the legacy code, providing high-quality development, maintenance, QA automation services, and bug-fixing.
3. Covered the development cycle with autotests, which resulted in boosting the client’s Android app’s Google Play rating due to the improved speed and the overall code quality.
4. Developed a set of new features that enriched both Android & iOS apps.
5. Implemented an advanced virtual payment system.

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java, Kotlin; Swift, RX Swift; Firebase; CircleCI

TEAM SIZE

• 6 engineers (iOS, Android, QA, Scrum Master)

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Geutebrück GmbH is an international provider of cutting-edge intelligent video security and video management software and the associated hardware. 200+ employees of our partner’s company help protect people, properties, relationships, and processes since 1970. The product line has solutions for identification of all possible objects, staff protection, early faults detection, car parks' monitoring, goods location tracking, optimization of processes onsite, documentation of processes based on video recordings, resolving the liability issues.

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INDUSTRY

• Video Security, CCTV, Enterprise software
• Information Technology and Services

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Windhagen, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA  

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, SignalR Core, gRPC, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes / Helm Charts, Identity Server 4, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Basic Cryptography, Apache Solr, Consul, PowerShell Core, Serilog, MediatR, Autofac, BenchmarkDotNet, DevExpress Reporting, JavaScript, TypeScript, Jira, SOAP, Selenium WebDriver

TEAM SIZE

• 20 engineers (PM, Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA Manual & Automation)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.geutebrueck.com/

Founded in 1990, HERDT-Verlag fur Bildungsmedien GmbH is a well-established multilingual publishing house for educational media that are known for their high didactic and methodological quality. These are topicality, quality, and customizability of IT educational media for companies, authorities, training service providers, educational institutions, adult education centers, schools, universities, trainers, teachers, and private customers. The company is the market leader for IT training materials in more than 500 topics, and have sold over 30 million books for beginners, users, and experts.

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INDUSTRY

• Education, Enterprise Software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Bodenheim, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Scrum Team for B2C Platform Development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP, JS, Bootstrap, Yii 2, Angular, MySQL, SetaSign, Rest API, Azure Cloud

TEAM SIZE

• 9 engineers (Project Manager/Product Owner, Manual & Automation QA, Full-Stack)

Visit our client’s website: https://cms.herdt.com/

Founded in 1995, OLR is the American real estate and web design and development agency that has created an exclusive OLR Data Platform. It’s the most widely used resource among more than 1.3k B2B clients and 2k residential brokers, landlords, and management companies in the New York City area. OLR offers a subscription-based web portal and game-changing mobile apps that provide the best listing data in NYC.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• New York, USA

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Created 2 Full-Stack Scrum teams for Client & Backend Development, QA, and support of 2 client’s solutions – B2B & B2C.
2. Improved the overall code quality by implementing the TDD approach to cover the code with unit tests and use of Dependency Injections along with encouraging the SOLID principle and single EF context for the entire application.
3. Cleaned up 1M+ lines of Legacy Code to transfer the project from the old tech stack to a modern one.
4. Re-wrote the core functionality of old features, got rid of stored procedures and introduced migrations.
5. Fixed the product’s security issues to improve the data storing with an encrypted environment.
6. Updated both the B2B and B2C platforms with new functionality. Made the portal responsive, fast, mobile- and user-friendly, and implemented a new UX design.
7. Moved the project from Kanban to Scrum methodology.

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core (C#), Angular 4, React, Node.js, MS SQL Server, Less, WebForms, WCF, NHibernate, Telerik, Elastic Search, Amazon Web services; REST API

TEAM SIZE

• 16 engineers (Mobile, Frontend, Backend, QA, UX/UI designers, PO/Scrum Master, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.olr.com/  

Reach out to us to get a full case study: [email protected]

Founded in 2017 in Cologne, aedifion GmbH is a well-established and government-funded tech company that provides advanced Building Automation Technology (BAT) solutions, with a wide network of consumers. aedifion.io is the highly specialized cloud platform for advanced operation, monitoring, and optimization of technical building equipment, energy systems, and district heating and cooling networks. You receive a comprehensive tool with which you can reduce your operating costs, increase energy efficiency, and benefit your systems. It allows to control, process, and optimize the data collected from energy systems and building equipment. For example, by quickly uncovering faults, correcting operational inefficiencies, by improving thermal comfort or indoor air quality.

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INDUSTRY

• IoT, Enterprise Software, Smart home

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Edge and backend functionality development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• Python, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgresql, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, K8s.

Visit our client’s website: https://www.aedifion.com/

BRAGI GmbH is a German award-winning tech startup that develops one-of-a-kind AI true wireless waterproof earphones called The Dash Pro, paired with controlling iOS and Android apps. Their earphones are empowered with such features as voice control, head gesture UI, smart audio control. With the BRAGI Software Suite, you can easily equip your Bluetooth audio products with advanced natural user interfaces and provide frictionless experiences to the end-users. This technology company is leading innovation in Hearable and body-worn computing.

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INDUSTRY

• Manufacturing, AI, IoT & Connected Tech

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Munich, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Created a nearshore development unit for Native Mobile Development and QA
2. Built a new mobile SDK as the core developer tool for the second generation of the client’s AI True Wireless, Hands-free Earbuds.
3. Following Kanban methodology, developed a new MVP version of the existing but modernized and improved Android app, with health checking and data streaming features added.
4. Deployed a fully-functional, bug-free, and stable second-generation BLE-enabled Android app.
5. In compliance with BRAGI’s security policies, provided the highest quality of code and secure development environment that protected BRAGI’s trade secret.
6. The work on the iOS application is currently in progress.

TECHNOLOGIES

• Native Android, iOS SDK, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Cucumber Autotests

TEAM SIZE

• 6 engineers (Mobile, QA, PM)

Visit our client’s website: https://bragi.com/ 

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Founded in 2000, secupay AG is a Pulsnitz-based BaFin-licensed institution that develops cashless payment solutions for online, mobile, and offline commerce. They offer an out-of-the-box smart, highly secure checkout software that integrates with online stores, marketplaces, mobile apps, EC terminals, social media channels, QR codes in print media, NFC in shop windows. Their solution supports cards, multichannel payment methods, vouchers, bonus points, and coupons through a uniform API. Data security and server architecture is certified according to PCI DSS requirements.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, e-Commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Pulsnitz, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• GDPR-Compliant Development of the Antifraud Checkout Payment System

TECHNOLOGIES

• Yii1/Yii2, Symfony, PHP, API Gateway

Visit our client’s website: https://secupay.com/

Run a Shop GmbH is an award-winning German startup that works for the benefit of the leading e-commerce companies and merchants globally (Rakuten, eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, Google Adsense). They operate a performance-based, data-driven user acquisition platform that provides targeted and highly profitable traffic at the lowest cost-per-click. The platform currently operates in 24 countries and work for over 15.000 shops, generating over $1 billion in revenues in the past 36 months and reaching 2M+ daily users and 10M clicks per day.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software, E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled a Full-Stack Scrum Team for Web App Development
2. Using Responsive Web Design, complex math calculations, search algorithms, and our client’s precise UI designs, we created 2 versions of a crossbrowser-compatible web app that works in a mobile view mode. Depending on the user’s location and typed-in keywords, the Run a Shop platform displays relevant ads and merchants, both local and global.
3. The product has won various awards from Google, European Tech5, Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
4. Following the highest development and security standards, we provided regular quality assurance checking, code cleaning, and bug-fixing.
5. Replaced the Waterfall methodology with Scrum.
6. Using Amazon hosting services, developed a scalable CRM solution from scratch.
7. Established a steady flow for further support, continuous development, and growth of the project.  

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP, Phalcon, Composer, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, REST, APIs, AWS, Elastic Search, SQL, Bootstrap, VueJS, React, Docker, Vagrant, Apache, Google Ads, Microservices

TEAM SIZE

• 9 engineers (Full-Stack, DevOps, QA, Scrum Master/Product Owner)

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

pkw.de Autoboerse GmbH is an online marketplace for millions of pre-owned cars, offering retailers special service packages for vehicle marketing and numerous free services to end customers, such as good used cars price rating and supply generator, which makes it easier for dealers to offer their vehicles. Buyers and sellers act fairly instead of haggling. PKW’s unique independent price check allows to easily find verified cheap bargains and directly compare used cars cross-checking any of the 65 vehicles’ characteristics thanks to very complex evaluation algorithms and a huge database of the platform. Their precise vehicle evaluation was certified by TÜV Rheinland.

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INDUSTRY

• Retail & E-commerce

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Full-Stack Team for Client & Backend Development and QA  

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ruby, HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, REST, APIs, Heroku, AWS, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, React, ML

TEAM SIZE

• 16 engineers (Frontend, Backend, DevOps, QA, iOS, Android, PM)

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

Founded in 2014 as a subsidiary of WW Grainger Inc., Zoro Tools Europe GmbH is a Düsseldorf-based e-commerce platform for professional high-end tools trading. Operating own international logistics team and warehouse, they simplify the procurement of necessary instruments and consumables from professional brands for business needs. In their online shop, you can find hand and power tools, fastening technology & fittings, work and protective clothing, office items and equipment as well as storage and workshop equipment. Zoro Tools provides quick availability, superior customer service, and a fair price level.

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INDUSTRY

• E-commerce & Retail

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Maintenance of an Enterprise Microservices Architecture

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java, Spring Boot Framework, SQL and Non-SQL Databases, REST, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Apache Kafka, Messaging Services (Amazon SQS), SOAP

Visit our client’s website: https://www.zoro.de/

Founded in 2014, Doozer Real Estate Systems GmbH is an exclusive Berlin-based B2B web platform for construction management services and homeowners alike. It’s an online cooperation bridge between the craft companies, real estate landlords, engineers, and asset managers, offering considerable time and cost advantages.

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INDUSTRY

• Real Estate, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for Dart Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Go, PostgreSQL, Dart, Angular, HTML, SCSS, Git, Jira
• Microservices; BloC pattern

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (Frontend)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.doozer.de/ 

Reach out to us to get a full case study: info@brightgrove.com

media access GmbH developed unique software for professional senior experts management. It is crucial to be able to find the right amount of data about such experts and be able to cross-reference it against the needed criteria. The client’s software thinks ahead and addresses the 3 core areas of senior experts’ management that simplify business processes: matching, fulfillment, and controlling.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Stuttgart, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Assembled a Full-Stack Engineering team for B2B web portal development and integration of Scrum from scratch.
2. Moved the project onto Scrum methodology, which resulted in the overall improvement of communication, planning, and development processes. The delivery speed has more than doubled.
3. Improved the QA procedure with 85% unit tests coverage and established regular code reviews.
4. Developed a stable and user-friendly web platform with all related functionality and backend, along with the responsive version which uses the same codebase. With it, media access expanded the global client base by 70%.

TECHNOLOGIES

• ASP.NET MVC 5, MSSQL, EntityFramework, jQuery, VueJS, REST API, Bootstrap, Microservices

TEAM SIZE

• 6 engineers (Frontend, Backend, QA, PM)

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rota is the software for professional duty planning and time recording in Austria and Germany. It’s an effective and cost-saving product for duty roster creation, time recording, and personnel management. And also the perfect software for hotels and restaurants. Rota GmbH & Co KG is a competent development partner with over 15 years of experience.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise Software, IT Services Providers

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Obertrum am See, Austria

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling Services for Mobile & Backend Development 

TECHNOLOGIES

• Ionic, .NET

Visit our client’s website: https://www.rota-zeiterfassung.com/

iflow AG is the leading Swiss provider of services and software tools for the analysis and digitization of the business processes of SME enterprises. Their platform operates as a highly secure data storage that allows clients to gradually optimize, streamline, and automate their administrative and business processes. Along with setting up the software, iflow experts also train clients’ employees to ensure that the most efficient methods are implemented and optimally used by an enterprise.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software, Business optimization

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Risch-Rotkreuz, Switzerland

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Native Mobile Apps and Backend development services
2. DevOps Integration from scratch
3. Built and launched fully functional iOS & Android apps with the implemented WWPass zero-trust multi-factor authentication and client-side data encryption technology.
4. Helped to update and optimize the client’s Monolithic architecture, moving its parts to up-to-date tech stack and integrating new technologies like Docker container service.
5. Recoded the backend side in the latest Java version.  

TECHNOLOGIES

• Java, Apache Ant, Jenkins, Gradle, Docker; Monolith

TEAM SIZE

• 4 engineers (DevOps, iOS, Android, QA)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.iflow.ch/    

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PIN Mail AG is a correspondence delivery company with more than 1,300 employees, operating as a contractor of the Mail Alliance (mailworXs GmbH) – a network of private mail shipment service providers. PIN Mail offers intelligent delivery services for nationwide post shipment and climate-neutral shipping of all correspondence.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise software, Logistics, Courier delivery

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Berlin, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Created a nearshore Full-Stack Scrum team for Web App Development
2. Optimized the architectural structure and developed the server app able to handle high load seamlessly (Single-page web app + RESTful web API).
3. Enriched the client’s “Shipment Manager” web app with a set of features that allow users to create wholesale orders, download and validate vast amounts of delivery addresses, and generate a delivery route for each address through the network’s logistics points.
4. Made the application mobile-friendly with the Twitter Bootstrap library.
5. Implemented the best QA practices and tools to ensure the highest code quality and the overall stability of the product.  

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET Core, ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Angular, Redux, Node.js, NgRx, Lodash, PrimeNG, RxJS, ORM Entity Framework Core, AutoMapper, xUnit, Moq, GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Nexus, Kubernetes, Docker

TEAM SIZE

• 3 engineers (Full-Stack)

Visit our client’s website: https://www.pin-ag.de/ 

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Auditi GmbH is a modern software solutions provider for auditors from Germany founded in 2012 by highly-skilled auditors and IT experts. They now work in close cooperation with DATEV eG. Their main business course is providing law firms, auditors, and their end-clients with an easy-to-use cloud solution for the confirmation campaigns, taking into account IDW PS 302 and ISA 505 standards. In the last 8 years, Auditi has become the market leader for audit confirmations in Germany.

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INDUSTRY

• FinTech, Insurtech, Cloud Computing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Düsseldorf, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Augmentation for the Enterprise Web App Development

TECHNOLOGIES

• Rails Stack; StimulusJS; Redis; PostgreSQL; Client-Server, MVC

TEAM

• Full-Stack Engineers & Design Developers

Visit our client’s website: https://www.auditi.com/en/about-us/

Yasni is a free multilingual search engine dedicated to finding people on the web. As the world's most commonly used website for background checks on people, it pulls together all the publicly available information and search results, including images, videos, social networking Exposés, and posts. Yasni website puts an end to multiple web searches. It lets you find everything about yourself, colleagues, friends, neighbors, and business partners. Anyone can create a personal Yasni Exposé and customize their search results by adding even more web links, images, keywords, or articles. With the Yasni engine, you are also able to manage your personal reputation on the World Wide Web and differentiate yourself from others.

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INDUSTRY

• Enterprise Software, IT Services Providers

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Frankfurt am Main, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling Services 

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP, MySQL, SVN, Linux, Node.js, Big Data

Visit our client’s website: http://www.yasni.de/

a-tune software AG is a medium-sized international product company founded in 1998. They provide software, services, and expertise in the area of Data Management and Compliance for laboratory R&D institutions (mainly biomedical). One of their main tech products is a management web app for tracking and analyzing everything from blood sampling results to pharmaceutical and cosmetic studies on animals. It’s a software platform for the management of laboratory animal research results, research compliance protocols, workflows, and committees. The company is a certified IDBS partner with 15+ years of experience, supporting the needs of leading research-driven organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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INDUSTRY

• Healthcare, Medical, Enterprise software

CLIENT’S LOCATIONS

• Darmstadt, Germany
• Austin, Texas, USA
• UK, France, Australia

 BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

• Custom Staff Scaling for the development of Management Web App for Laboratory R&D Facilities

TECHNOLOGIES

• .NET, Visual Basic

Operating since 1995, Feo Elektronik GmbH is an ISO 9001:2015 certified tech company that works interdisciplinary in the fields of consumer and industrial electronics, informatics, medical and driving technologies, embedded software, and mechanical engineering. Their services include end-to-end product conception and design; product development and manufacturing; electronic and software development; mechanical construction and all-around authorizations (CE, UL, FDA).

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INDUSTRY

• Manufacturing

CLIENT’S LOCATION

• Ravensburg, Germany

BRIGHTGROVE’S ADDED VALUE

1. Set up a nearshore team of C/C++ engineers for the embedded development of Microcontroller Software for Traffic Lights.
2. Created unit tests and development-accompanying documentation.
3. Tested and documented the firmware behavior with respect to Bluetooth communication, internal communication, and control algorithms; participated in the embedded development scope.
4. Developed 1st version of a secured and ISO-compliant embedded application for ARM microcontrollers in smart traffic lights that communicate voice alerts to blind people. The work is in progress, we’re handling continuous support and new functionality integration.

TECHNOLOGIES

• C/C++, ARM, Doxygen, Flowchart, RTOS, ARM controllers, Bluetooth Low Energy, CAN, RS232

TEAM SIZE

• 2 engineers (C/C++)

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