endorsedOngoing

Big Data and Web Development for SaaS Company

Services Covered:

Staff Augmentation • Website Development • API Development

Industry

Business Consulting & Services

Duration

73 months

Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date

1 July 2020

Team Size

11-15 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

78/100

Good

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Client

trades.org

Austin, United States of America

Project Summary

Intelliarts provided long-term engineering support to a SaaS company, delivering front-end, back-end, mobile, and big-data development and staff augmentation. They built and migrated big data pipelines (Hadoop → Spark/Databricks → Snowflake), developed consumer-facing React apps and Gatsby sites, and modernized backend APIs (REST → GraphQL). The team is fully embedded in the client's operations and has built systems processing 20+ billion events per day.

Key Challenges

Needed a team with varied expertise across front-end, back-end, mobile, big data, AI/ML, and GIS
Needed help to prototype complex systems and then refactor and fortify them into production solutions

Project Deliverables

Big data pipelines on Hadoop and Spark
Migration to Snowflake data platform
Consumer-facing web applications built with React
Large websites using static-site generators (Gatsby)
Backend modernization from REST to GraphQL
Federated Apollo GraphQL server
Vetted developer hires / staff augmentation

Project Solution

Intelliarts supplied experienced developers and teams to prototype, refactor, and harden systems into production. They built big data pipelines on Hadoop, migrated workloads to Spark on Databricks and later to Snowflake, developed consumer-facing React web apps and Gatsby sites, and modernized backend APIs from REST to GraphQL, including migrating from AWS AppSync to a federated Apollo Server. They also provide recruitment and vetting, embedding developers into the client's team.

Project Outcome

Systems that process 20+ billion events per day
Full embedding of vendor developers into the client's team (Slack, company email, participation in business activities)
High-quality, reliable delivery and improved engineering execution

Platforms

Tech Stack

Apache Hadoop
Apache Spark
React.js
GraphQL
REST API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.75

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Intelliarts has built systems that process more than 20 billion events each day and developed tools and technologies for the client's business. They communicate via Slack and take part in the client's regular business activities. They are also smart, professional, adaptive, kind, and communicative.”
Christian Rodriguez
CEO
Date: 09/18/2022