IT Staff Augmentation on Demand

The client is a maritime intelligence company with offices in the US and UK. They developed a suite of data-driven solutions that help global players in the maritime industry — from ship owners and fleet operators to logistics conglomerates — optimize vessel performance and voyage planning and meet compliance and environmental goals. Powered by advanced analytics and ML algorithms, the client’s integrated platform provides real-time operational intelligence and decision support to such companies as TotalEnergies, Shell, Euronav, and dozens more.

In 2022, the UK branch faced the need to quickly extend their tech teams and close the talent gap amid a constantly growing workload. They were looking for a reliable nearshore vendor who could not only meet high standards and provide skilled software engineers fast but also be able to flexibly respond to changes and scale up on demand.

Our primary goal at the outset was to help the client quickly staff senior-level positions with experienced engineers. Along with high qualification requirements, the client was looking for capable specialists who could easily integrate into a fast-paced working environment and become a source of technical and process improvements. Speed, agility, and expertise were the cornerstones of our successful partnership. During our collaboration, we:

• Screened and integrated 5 senior tech specialists into the client’s development, delivery, and data engineering teams.
• Added robust frontend (React), backend (Python, AWS), and delivery expertise to the project able to bring practical advice to the table when needed.
• Dynamically scaled up and scaled down the team and added new skilled engineers depending on changing project requirements, development roadmap, and business priorities, all the while keeping deliveries on schedule and staying on budget.
• Flexibly adapted to changing workloads jumping to support several teams and sometimes adjusting schedules to bridge the communication gap between teams working in various time zones.
• Navigated the client’s organizational and strategic changes enabling the company to quickly close talent gaps without going over budget.
• Helped the client successfully migrate new services and tools into existing infrastructure and adapt their platform to shifting requirements.

• Fast and flexible IT staff augmentation helps the client scale up several tech teams, dynamically respond to changing development roadmap, and avoid inflated IT costs.
• 5 senior tech specialists (React engineers, Python engineers, a C# engineer, and a dedicated Delivery Manager) integrated into the client’s project to develop, manage, and support an Azure-based platform for maritime intelligence.
• Multiple delivery goals achieved in only one year, including the release of new critical features for fleet monitoring, voyage tracking, and route management.
• Performance optimization, code refactoring and improvement, and implementation of data pipelines.
• Modern tech stack and engineering practices: JS, React, Redux, WebGL, MUI, Python, Microsoft Azure, CosmosDB, Databricks, Azure Datalake, Bitbucket, Git, Bash, Pytest, CI/CD.