Online e-commerce marketplace company

IT is a social networking platform that enables consumers to shop for international brands on local sites and apps

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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION

What was needed was a high-load system based on the client’s worldwide connectivity. This system had to include both the B2C and C2C aspects to enable the selling of different items. In addition, the automation of working processes made it possible to cooperate with 3rd parties courier companies and payment systems.

The project’s objective was to revive platforms and Apps (iOS, Android), add new features, and include an infrastructure rework. The project’s primary goal was to make the international buying process really easy and comfortable.

Project goals

Set up system infrastructure on AWS and follow modern data security handling practices.
Develop subsystems using Agile approaches, Node.js and React, relational and NoSQL databases, Android and iOS development technologies, high-load distributed online chat systems, and automated functional and non-functional testing approaches.
Build the system on the development of data mining processes.
Design a central product vision, evaluate different concepts, and select the optimal one.
Implement a new chat with PUSH notifications, payment requests, statuses, and media file uploading.
Implement integration with the payment service to allow users to make international purchases in several currencies.
Update the legacy project with new libraries, services, and infrastructure.

OUTCOMES

PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY

System globe scaling between countries and continents
Response time for clients' requests less than 1 sec
Auto-scaling support
Achieving general endpoints response time 100-300ms with 10M+ active users
Real-time communications over WebRTC and Websockes
Real-time communications over WebRTC and High availability of system according to SLA (99,95%)

DATA AND INTEGRATION

Sophisticated social algorithms to make the best predictions on clients' needs
Making business analysis with the help of data lake and data warehouse. Working with Athena and PowerBI
Integrations with banks and logistics companies
Errors predictions and alarming support
System orchestration and containerization
Implementing a combination of social networking and market place experience
Implementation of CI/CD for every service and application builds

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SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE

Technological stack

Linux (Centos, Red Hat, OpenSuSe), Windows 7,10

Databases

MongoDB, Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 12

Languages/Platforms

Java 11, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, Python 3, BASH, Powershell

Frameworks/Libraries

Spring, Java enterprise server, React, Realm, OpenCV, Tensorflow

Servers/Cloud

Java enterprise server, Tomcat, AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon SageMaker

Technical environment

Jenkins, Docker, Nginx

Cloud standards:

AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon SageMaker

Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker, Tensorflow, PyTorch

Integrations

SAP ERP 6.0. SCM/CRM/HRM

SQA standards

ISO 25010, ISO/IEC 12119, ISO/IEC 27000

What our clients say

Constructivo

Soft-Industry has demonstrated a strong trustworthiness with the goals of our company. We have been working with them since the end of 2001 reducing our IT budget to 80% and increasing our time responsiveness to 95%. In our web business, time is very critical. Over 5,000 users in South America are accessing, searching, creating and reading data on our web tool, maintained by Soft-Industry. Several projects with different requirements are requested every month, and Soft-Industry team has an extraordinary commitment with our company. Construtivo.com recommends Soft-Industry as a contractor for software development projects outsourcing and as a reliable and qualified IT partner.

EMSI Burning Glass

Cooperation between EMSI Burning Glass (formerly Burning Glass Technologies) and Soft Industry Alliance has started 7 years ago, when SIA has been selected as a technical partner to strengthen our internal development teams on several projects. As our cooperation progressed, we’ve expanded it to an additional set of projects. Through many years of our partnership, Soft Industry Alliance engineers were able to complete most of their tasks successfully, which helped us to achieve our business goals. Another advantage is their adaptability to our processes and working hours. SIA cooperates successfully with our offices in US, Europe and India. We highly appreciate our productive business relationship and happy to continue working together!

British American Tobacco

We set tasks for SIA to expand and renew the QIS-X system – a new scheme and new calculations of the number of quality, extensions for THP products, tobacco chemistry and safety indicators in cigarette smoke.It has always been a pleasure to cooperate with the SIA team as we worked to expand QIS-X. The most valuable experience for me is the cooperation on the data transfer unit of safety and chemistry indicators of THP for the calculation of the quality indicator. I am grateful to SIA for its prompt attention, desire to understand the problem, ability to work in a team, effective solutions and their quality implementation.

Code-IT

We started to work with Soft industry Alliance when we needed developers for our project strongly. SIA team solved all tasks in time and helped us to reach our business goals. All company employees are very professional and loyal, very easy to work with, and very dedicated to completing all work on time with high quality. They are open and honest, it’s valued.

Nova Solutions LLC

I want to share my experience of cooperation with Soft Industry Alliance. They provide highly qualified technicians within the stipulated time at prices lower than specialists from Europe/USA of a similar level. The company is flexible in making decisions, the cooperation is always comfortable because you can expect to find a win-win solution. They are flexible in communication, their employees are loyal, and they have quite strong soft skills, and are also ready to back up colleagues in the course of completing tasks. Soft Industry Alliance is ready to work in cooperation with other companies to help clients achieve their business goals and be proactive towards the contractor to solve the tasks. And they continued to work even in wartime, keeping the team as productive as possible.

Comocom GmbH

We appreciate Soft Industry as a reliable and trustful partner, we appreciate the flexibility to find solutions to any arising issues. As an ISO-certified company Soft Industry has a huge advantage when having to choose what fits that security requirements.