NEARSURE

The challenge

"Our internal development cycles have accelerated in ways we could have never imagined before the pandemic. We truly have to keep moving and developing around the clock to deliver to a client base under extraordinary stress.Enhance user experience while equally ensuring the application could support our security and scalability standards."  Joe Paulini, CEO Chexout

Due to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, there was an urgent need to help public organizations track COVID-19 exposure. This required an agile software development team to rapidly build new features and functionality by customizing Chexout’s Contact Tracing suite for COVID-19 specific use.

To meet the critical demand for COVID-19 functionality, Chexout sought to bolster its software development team with senior engineers who could work across time zones to create a near 24-hour product development cycle. This capability was crucial to Chexout’s ability to deliver to a client base under extreme pressure and stress, many facing life or death consequences from the pandemic

Our solution

12 senior software developers and QA engineers. This team worked in development scrums with other teams across time zones to develop new COVID-19 tracking capabilities and functionalities, incorporating Chexout client requests and feedback in near real-time

Technology Stack. Chexout’s digital platform relies on:

• Java 8
• Docker
• Elasticsearch
• MySQL
• Spring Boot
• AWS technologies
• GO
• JUnit
• Angular

Nearsure’s support was critical in innovating Chexout’s COVID tracking solution by helping to build in predictive modeling functionality and incorporate over 20,000 local Indianapolis businesses and organizations into the platform.

The Nearsure team continues to help support Chexout’s rapid growth and demand for solutions, ensuring speed to market for new features and capabilities and rapid response to immediate client requests and feedback.

The challenge

In 2021, Health Catalyst initiated a large organizational effort to expand its team of technology professionals across the organization. 
The Company was looking to achieve two primary goals, including:

1. To bring on more talent while also offering cost-competitive solutions and services to its customers; and
2. To reorganize and improve processes to ramp talent as well as upskill current IT talent both internally and externally with contractors.

Our solution

Within seven months, Nearsure was able to identify, screen and onboard 13, or nearly half of the Health Catalyst team member position openings, a very high conversion rate in comparison to other offshore and onshore vendors used by Health Catalyst.

This team worked in development scrums with other teams across time zones to develop new COVID-19 tracking capabilities and functionalities, incorporating Chexout client requests and feedback in near real-time.

Referred to internally as Data Engineers, Nearsure talent quickly ramped up to productivity in roles in the following areas:

• Data Acquisition.
• Data Implementation.
• Data Pipeline Support.
• Analytical Services.
• Software Development.
• PARAMs.
• DOS Platform

Results

Nearsure continues to help Health Catalyst build its team of data engineers for 2022, with hiring progressing for specific projects as well as opportunities within the organization.

Overall benefits include:

• Highly skilled data engineers with technical expertise and senior-level experience in the data science field who are excellent communicators, enthusiastic and personable.
• Collaboration across time zones backed by best talent match model for both project based and ongoing, evolving roles.
• Flexible approach focused on engaging and retaining skilled talent, supporting Health Catalyst’s track record of very low staff turnover