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Excellent quality, checked by more then 20 years’ experience!
Since 1995
Main customers in: EU and Japan
Time saving solution:
Teams of experienced engineers & International management technologies for business procedures
Cost Effective projects:
Software engineers from Eastern Europe
Office: Ukraine, Kyiv
Locations
Ukraine
Proviantska St. 3,
Kyiv,
kyiv
03113
+380443831303
United States
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 - 1386 E Hill Crest Dr,
Los Angeles,
California
CA 91362
+18058079138
Focus Areas
Service Focus
- Software Development
- Web Development
- Mobile App Development
- Testing Services
- Maintenance & Support
Client Focus
- Medium Business
- Large Business
- Small Business
Industry Focus
- Automotive
- Consumer Products
- Other
Nika Craft Executive Interview
Alexei Repetko
CEO
Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
It has been over 25 years since we started developing various desktop/ web/ mobile solutions for the leaders of the global automotive industry, with the main focus on the R&D of new engines and compliance with environmental standards.
We have mastered data storage and processing along with visualization and automation of production processes.
The significant tasks we have solved so far include data storage, processing, and visualization, automation of production processes.
About NikaCraft
We are a team of experts specialized in high-quality engineering services.
25+ Years in engineering developments, since 1995
8+ Major clients with a workforce of 50 000+, from EU and Japan
50+ Experienced developers from Eastern Europe, Ukraine
25+ Years in engineering developments, since 1995
8+ Major clients with a workforce of 50 000+, from EU and Japan
50+ Experienced developers from Eastern Europe, Ukraine
Our clients appreciate the collaboration with Nika Craft for:
Security
More than 21 years of experience with NDA enterprise projects
High-quality
Main customers are major car manufacturers from Japan and the EU
Reliability
Long-term relations with a client, on average more than 5 years
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What was the idea behind starting this organization?
As engineers with high technical and computer science backgrounds, we wanted to share our knowledge and experience with partners and customers. This field, engineering software, still requires a lot of innovation and modern IT technologies, which will finally improve our life.
What is your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
Most of our projects we are doing are in cooperation with our partners for the Western and Japanese market, although some of our projects we are developing within house teams.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
Long-term experience, including participation in enterprise-level project, and well-established development process, which starts from requirement collection and goes on to shipped software support, maintenance, stable team, and being result-oriented.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive?
Mainly our solutions are used for the leaders of the global automotive industry. The solutions we offer are universal and can be used in other areas.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing software.
Critical parameters taken into consideration include size of the project scope, clarity of requirements, limitation in technologies, and existing solutions that can be used, etc.
In our company, we use SCRUM methodology and its estimation techniques like planning poker.
In our company, we use SCRUM methodology and its estimation techniques like planning poker.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of software?
It depends on the project scope. In most of our projects, the back-end part takes about 25-35% of the front end. And in our team, we have set up full-stack developers who feel confident in both areas.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right framework for developing software?
The purpose and scope of software, the framework productivity, and performance, development cost, the framework license costs.
Which languages & frameworks do you prefer to use in the development of software?
It depends on the target and project.
For our enterprise projects, we use different teams of experts, mainly its JavaScript, C#, .Net, etc.
For our enterprise projects, we use different teams of experts, mainly its JavaScript, C#, .Net, etc.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of software?
Key factors include project size, clarity of the project requirements, partner-specific requirements, and conformity with the internal development process.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions etc.)
Time and materials scheme
Sometimes Fixed price for a pilot project
Sometimes Fixed price for a pilot project
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
Min budget 15k.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2018?
2018: 65K - 600K Euro.
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Nika Craft Reviews
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Andreas Stankewitz, Owner and General Manager at Naradana WebSolutions
Posted on Sep 23, 2019
Naradana Platform Development by NikaCraft
Review Summary
I had the pleasure to work with Nika Craft and its founder/owner Alexei Repetko multiple times in the past. The projects ranged from shopping API analysis and implementation, security programming with YubiKey API, and complex UI and system programming for the Naradana Platform.
Already appreciating the high standard of competence of the Nika Craft employees I was especially impressed by the positive working atmosphere. The positive and constructive attitude of all team-members was exemplary and allowed an easy going collaboration while maintaining a professional working style.
Also, I found that Mr. Repetko takes human values as important as fair business agreements and therefore provides a great working environment for his employees.
I'm looking forward to the next opportunity to work again with the people at Nika Craft.
Already appreciating the high standard of competence of the Nika Craft employees I was especially impressed by the positive working atmosphere. The positive and constructive attitude of all team-members was exemplary and allowed an easy going collaboration while maintaining a professional working style.
Also, I found that Mr. Repetko takes human values as important as fair business agreements and therefore provides a great working environment for his employees.
I'm looking forward to the next opportunity to work again with the people at Nika Craft.
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
NikaCraft provided very high flexibility in collaboration style and adopting our new technology and method. We share a common attitude in terms of human values in the work environment. The communication capabilities are outstanding and helped to overcome any obstacles even before they could develop into collaboration problems. The company has very good knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies and beyond. The willingness of the developers to adjust to the special work environment and still providing constructive criticism was a significant contributions to the success of the collaboration - and highly enjoyable.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Hire more equally qualified people - hence: give them projects and budget so the can do it!
Alex Ros
Posted on Aug 07, 2019
Great development partner
Review Summary
For more than 5 years we work with Nika Craft on several projects for imitrix products as well together with our clients on their Web, App and Windows projects.
The staff is very experienced, top motivated, creative and well organized. Every project setup and communication went very smooth and transparent from the beginning. We solely apply the SCRUM process, and Nika Craft is a well experienced SCRUM practitioner in all roles including Product Owner.
All projects were finished in time and saved money for us and our client.
We are very happy to work with NIKA Craft, and will continue many years.
The staff is very experienced, top motivated, creative and well organized. Every project setup and communication went very smooth and transparent from the beginning. We solely apply the SCRUM process, and Nika Craft is a well experienced SCRUM practitioner in all roles including Product Owner.
All projects were finished in time and saved money for us and our client.
We are very happy to work with NIKA Craft, and will continue many years.