Building a team that streamlined product development, testing, and support processes to create an innovative backup and disaster recovery solution

Testimonial from the Chief Architect of the product:

“When we started the company we had every intention of building an exclusively US-based engineering team. We hired a small team in Ukraine with a very specific task in what we expected to be a short engagement of six months or at most a year. Our goal was never to find cheaper talent; we were focused entirely on finding engineers with the skills and drive to match our ambitious goals and results-oriented company culture. But over time we found that while we struggled to find satisfactory engineering talent locally, we were able to expand our Ukraine team with top-tier senior engineering talent and -more importantly for us – talented and hard-working junior engineers from Ukraine’s top computer science schools. 

At the height of our engineering growth, we had over 150 software and test engineers in the Kyiv office. They worked directly with team leads and managers in the US, and in fact more than half of them at one point or another came to our US offices to meet and train with our US leadership. It’s no exaggeration to say that without our Ukraine engineering team we could not have achieved the rapid growth which led to our success in the market, through to the Dell acquisition and beyond.”

The solution used by the client needed an upgrade, specifically, a regular resource-intensive database indexing needed to be replaced by a more flexible mechanism. To be productive under heavy loads, the system was in need of a scalable and more powerful solution. We suggested integrating the system with an open-source search engine Elasticsearch based on Amazon Web Services.