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Ruby on Rails Development & Team Augmentation for Cybrains

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Software Development

Duration

55 months

Budget

10K - 49K

Start Date

1 June 2015

Team Size

1-5 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

77/100

Good

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Client

Cybrains, Inc.

Athens, United States of America

Project Summary

Atharva System provided Ruby on Rails development and augmented a distributed development team, delivering new features, maintenance, and automated testing across multiple projects. They transformed proofs of concept into lasting solutions, ported search, integrated front-end frameworks, and built interfaces to external services. Their involvement allowed the client (Cybrains) to scale project work without hiring a full-time development staff.

Key Challenges

Augment a worldwide distributed development and design team
Build new features and fix bugs across multiple projects
Improve the codebase with automated testing
Optimize slow areas of applications

Project Deliverables

Porting search from Solr to Elasticsearch
Integration of Bootstrap into the frontend
Interfaces to external services (SOAP/XML/e-commerce)
Automated unit and integration tests
New features and ongoing maintenance for Ruby on Rails applications

Project Solution

Atharva augmented the client's distributed development team and implemented full-stack Ruby on Rails work. They ported search from Solr to Elasticsearch, integrated Twitter Bootstrap for maintainable front-end code, and built interfaces to external services including SOAP, XML, and e-commerce systems. They converted proofs of concept into production-ready features and delivered automated unit and integration tests to improve code quality and stability.

Project Outcome

Enabled the client (Cybrains) to grow and take on many projects without hiring full-time developers
Provided flexibility to expand and contract according to client demand
Delivered consistent, reliable contributions and the ability to absorb new technical challenges
Improved code quality via automated unit and integration testing

Platforms

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails
Bootstrap
Elasticsearch

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“By augmenting the internal team's development capabilities, Atharva System allowed the company to take on multiple projects at once. This increased flexibility also helped grow the company. The team faced challenges head-on, regardless of whether they were familiar with a project's given tech stack.”
Michael Lang
CEO
Date: 06/30/2020