Moving from an externally hired staff to a full-stack dedicated team

Project background

The project began in 2020, when Organic needed a dedicated software engineer from a credible offshore IT staffing company to assist them with the requirements of a rapidly developing project, thedrive.com.

Organic, a firm that monetizes high-traffic websites, had several specific requirements to meet at the time:

• Integrate numerous websites with various layouts and code languages into a single platform. 
• Multiple requests from content creators on different types of content blocks to maximize their creativity 
• High demand from clients when running multiple advertising campaigns 
• Threats of crashes due to high traffic to most websites which have unique monthly visitors of 50 million and more

Our solution

Thanks to our dedication and commitment to the project in the earlier days, our partnership with the client blossomed steadily. With the assistance of Sunbytes, the Organic team has expanded the project from one offshore developer into a current full-stack dedicated team of 9 members. These experts were chosen from top-tier talent pools in both Vietnam and the Netherlands, and our clients capitalize on their abilities.                                           

While the dedicated team initially focused solely on migration, the team has expanded to include many aspects of the client’s business operations, such as Email Marketing and DevOps, as well as numerous ideas to improve the system that help clients generate a lot of income.

Team achievements

After a year, the team has made the following achievements

Migrated many websites into Organic platform

Introduced hundreds of new features into the websites, including both previous and newly added ones, to power content writers to create compelling content

Designed and developed a reusable, robust, and smooth migration tool for a variety of websites with various formats and layouts, as well as diverse content kinds.

Add some functionalities to support the analytics team in quickly and easily evaluating website data.

Maintain a database of over 2 million users and set up email marketing campaigns for them.

Started the implementation of content delivery via headless CMS published using frontend frameworks to improve user experience

Propose and integrate a CDN provider to avoid downtime on websites and implement a failover setup to minimize downtime on CDN provider failure.

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Technology stacks

WordPress

PHP

Python / Django

WP GraphQL Yoast SEO

Amazon S3

React

NextJS

NodeJS

GraphQL

SQL

Gutenberg Block

Codeception

ACF

Kubernetes

Nginx

Fastly

Automated testing

PHPUnit

Cloudfront

Google Analytics

Docker

Mailchimp

Google Tag Manager

Feedback from our client

“SunBytes has been a critical part of development for Organic as we have grown from managing a single site to a wide portfolio of them. They are pragmatic, a pleasure to work with, and the communication with both their engineers and their management has made them feel like direct members of our own team.”

Justin DeMaris – CTO – Organic

Our team

Front end

Back end

Account Management

Devops

Project management

Customer alignment

A young and ambitious company, Organic has scaled up quickly, adding about 200 ++ staff from all over the world and expanding its network of websites. Sunbytes, in supporting the client, not only takes care of the whole recruitment process but also ensures that the client can save their resources for core activities by receiving additional benefits from us.

Regular technical training

Sunbytes regularly conducts training sessions on the latest technology trends and supports the team on changing technology requirements from the client 

Continuous improvement

We also proactively propose improvements in the development process to help the client save time and expense on operation activities 

Real-time communication

We guarantee easy and real-time communication because all dedicated team members work in the same time zone as the client 

Sharing our expertise

Sunbytes actively assigns experts to accompany the dedicated  team when training is needed

CTO Support & Aligment

We also offer CTO level alignment and are open to sharing innovative ideas outside the Sunbytes dedicated team