endorsedOngoing

DevOps Staff Augmentation for Veeqo's E‑commerce SaaS Platform

Services Covered:

Staff Augmentation

Industry

E-commerce & Retail

36 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 January 2016

Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

66/100

Good

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Client

Veeqo

Swansea, United Kingdom

Project Summary

Mad Devs provided a dedicated DevOps engineer (backed by their wider team) to migrate hosting and automate infrastructure for an e-commerce SaaS platform using AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL. The engagement improved infrastructure resilience and security, increased automation, and significantly reduced hosting expenses. The client praised the fit of the resource and the vendor's project management and remote-working integration.

Key Challenges

Reduce hosting costs by migrating from an expensive IaaS provider.
Implement infrastructure automation to replace manual administration.
Provide an experienced DevOps/sysadmin resource to manage and maintain infrastructure.

Project Deliverables

Infrastructure management
Database administration
Application server management
Caching configuration
Firewall management
Infrastructure automation
Dedicated DevOps engineer resource (staff augmentation)

Project Solution

Mad Devs took ownership of the client's entire infrastructure, managing databases, application servers, caching, firewalls and overall infrastructure automation. They provided a contracted DevOps engineer who was supported by the vendor's wider team. The engagement involved migrating hosting to a more cost-effective platform and implementing automation and operational management using AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL.

Project Outcome

Infrastructure became more resilient and secure.
Automation of infrastructure improved.
Hosting expenses were cut significantly.
The assigned resource was an excellent fit and project management performance was praised.

Platforms

Cloud

Tech Stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
PostgreSQL
Docker

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The resource provided by Mad Devs is excellent, bringing not only their own skill and expertise. but the input of the wider team to the project too. They manage the remote work seamlessly and fit well into the company’s workflow.”
Daniel Vartanov
CTO
Date: 01/28/2019