Gecko Dynamics
About Gecko Dynamics
Why do CEOs, Marketing Managers, Tech Project Leads, or CTOs choose us?
- From founded in 1865 to brand new companies.
Our clients are placed both on Crunchbase and Chicago Tribune.
- 27 industries explored since 2002.
We do software development for B2C and B2B businesses. Our clients represent over 27 industries and tons of ideas.
- Timezones and geographic distances aren't a border for us.
We have had customers from different latitudes from almost the very beginning (2002). If...Read more
Why do CEOs, Marketing Managers, Tech Project Leads, or CTOs choose us?
- From founded in 1865 to brand new companies.
Our clients are placed both on Crunchbase and Chicago Tribune.
- 27 industries explored since 2002.
We do software development for B2C and B2B businesses. Our clients represent over 27 industries and tons of ideas.
- Timezones and geographic distances aren't a border for us.
We have had customers from different latitudes from almost the very beginning (2002). If mention a few cities, Toronto, Melbourne, London, Chicago, Nairobi, or Mexico.
- They can hire us or outsource our staff.
More than 20 years in the software development industry is a convincing argument for very experienced managers to work with us.
- They’re never alone.
Our clients like how we take care of them. Our project management process assures anyone involved that the project will be delivered on time and business objectives fulfilled. The process includes the following:- Analysis & scoping sessions
- Prototyping & specification
- Design
- Development
- Launch
- Support & maintenance
Industries our clients represent:
- Manufacturing, construction & automotive
- Aviation & flight
- Logistics, supply chain & transportation
- Financial, fintech & Insurance
- Retail & restaurants
- Real estate & property
- Healthcare, medical & pharmacy
- Travel, hospitality & leisure
- HR, project & employee management
- Media, entertainment & events
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Examples of work we’ve been part of:
- software for a manufacturing company in Canada since 2012
- job recruitment platform, USA, since 2020
- startup for measuring TV ads efficiency, in Scotland, since 2020
- employee management software, Ireland, since 2020
- cloud-based data aggregator, Canada, since 2021
Our business partners use the following services:
- Custom software development
- IT staff augmentation
- Digital product design
- SaaS app development
- Web development
- Mobile app development
- Digital tranformation
- Legacy software reengineering
Our teams include:
- Solutions Architects
- Full Stack Developers
- Mobile Developers
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Business Analysts
- Technical Consultants
- UX/UI Designers
- QA Analysts
- Dev/Ops
Main technologies:
- Back-end & data
- Java development (Spring, Hibernate)
- Node.js
- Javascript (Node.js)
- PHP (Laravel, Symfony, Zend)
- C#/.NET (ASP.NET,
- Python (Django, Flask)
- Front-end
- React development
- Angular
- Vue.js
- HTML,
- jQuery
- CSS
- Mobile
- iOS (Swift, Objective-C)
- Android development (Java, Kotlin)
- Cross-platform (React Native, Xamarin, Flutter, C++)
- DevOps & Cloud
- AWS
- Jenkins
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Databases
- MySQL
- MSSQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- MariaDB
- Cassandra
Key Insights
Services & Focus
Industry Focus
Client Focus
Portfolio
Spectrum Wellness
A brand-new platform brought to the market by Spectrum Wellness – Ireland’s leading company in providing employee-tailored health & wellness plans to medium & big enterprises in Ireland. The platform aim is to provide clearer overview of the purchased plans to its clients and partnered companies, as well as to enhance their management by consolidating all information in one place.
Duration: 2018 – ongoing
Technologies used: PHP, Yii2, Javascript, Vue.js, Html, CSS
Client’s country: Dublin, Ireland
Spectrum Wellness reached out to Gecko Dynamics seeking an urgent action on developing the frontend part of their brand new platform, which was scheduled to hit the market by the end of 2018. That happened, because Spectrum realised, that the in-house development team is out of its capacity and will not manage to release the complete product by the end of the year, and therefore needed an urgent help with getting the things delivered, as the whole marketing campaign was landing at the same time.
Gecko Dynamics took up the challenge and has worked closely with Spectrum Wellness development team on a frontend part to help delivering the product within the required time. Gecko Dynamics team was set to work closely with Spectrum in-house development team on the frontend part of the application.
Therefore, there were 2 teams in 2 locations working on the same product, which required strong communication between the teams and properly distributed scope of work to both teams. It is worth mention, that both teams were working under pressure of fixed deadline and the work was necessary to progress within the requested pace.
Enterprise League
Enterprise League is a London-based startup providing a social-business platform with purpose to connect businesses around the world in a professional way, basing on their industries and specialization. The mission of the platform is to help businesses find a relevant business partner basing on their current business needs.
Duration: March 2018 - ongoing
Technologies used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, React.js, AWS, Kubernetes
Client’s country: London, UK
The client, which is a London-based startup, contacted us in early February 2018 looking for software house to take a full care of their new startup. What they had, was a concept of a social platform working as a web app on which companies can look for other companies to do business with. What the client needed, was a company that will provide an end-to-end process, starting from workshops and business analysis, through UX wireframing and design, to software development, QA and maintenance. What we are particularly proud of, is that the client has chosen Gecko Dynamics out of over 20 companies they contacted.
Given the requirements for the platform, Gecko Dynamics started with thorough business & technical analysis of the platform requirements by conducting the Workshops together with the client. As a result of intensive brainstorming meetings conducted with the client’s team over 3 days, the exact scope has been agreed, followed by UX mockups and Specification of Development. As a next step, both teams worked closely on creating the appealing UI design. Having that part accomplished, the team commenced software development process in the Agile process, dividing the whole scope into 2-week sprints, with QA process happening in parallel.
In the end, we created the whole platform, which functionalities include:
Setting up an extensive profile of your company, including detailed information about its business and what it offers
Newsfeed with ability to add posts including photos, videos and embedded links, as well as comment posts of other companies
Matching screen, proposing the most relevant business partners by matching algorithm basing on your company information
Chats and conversations between users
Displaying the profiles of other companies
Help form
Integration with several 3rd party services & APIs
Admin panel allowing the product owners to moderate the content of the app as well as manage the registered companies
Services provided:
Workshops – Business Analysis & Technical Analysis
UX prototyping
UI design
Software development – Java development, React.js development
QA & testing
Project Management
Volo
Volo is a complex system working as a fitness club & gym management software. Currently it’s one of the leading SaaS products for web-based billing and scheduling among fitness club owners across Canada and US.
Duration: 2007 – Ongoing
Technologies used: Tomcat, Java, JSP, Postgres Database, React
Client’s country: Canada
Volo Innovations was a startup based out of Vancouver, created by Nikki and Barry Layton in 2007 who at the time were gym owners looking for a solution to manage their gym and its operations. Since they could not find anything on the market that would satisfy their needs, they decided to create a custom SaaS application for themselves and other gym owners.
Gecko Dynamics helped Volo Innovations by developing a whole product (called by itself Volo) from scratch and maintaining its further development & support. Over the next years, Volo became a successful product and one of the leading applications for gym management in US and Canada.
System functionality includes:
Scheduling – integrated scheduling and billing modules automatically tracks all sessions to customers’ accounts and to payroll
Billing & invoicing – Volo makes invoicing system easier and quicker, adding purchases, cancellations, and membership fees to member accounts automatically, allowing to issue an accurate invoice within seconds.
Integration with various billing systems
Marketing – automated marketing modules including newsletters and other user-interactions tools, reaching existing members, as well as prospective clients.
Reporting – complex analytical tools allows you to instantly access relevant business reports to manage the growth of your business, identifying revenue opportunities, staff demand, the number of new memberships, and much more.
Member Portal – members can manage their own schedules and appoint classes with trainers, as well as pay for it and purchase products being sold at gyms
ERP sub-system
Hardware integration – automatic locks, entrance gates, membership cards
Importing data from integrated hardware to track members’ behaviors
Staff management
Much more
CamTran Jive
Jive is a complex business process management software serving a major role in everyday cycles of CamTran – Canada’s leading manufacturer of oil-filled transformers.
Duration: 2012 – Ongoing
Technologies used: Tomcat, Java, JSP, Postgres Database, React.js
Client’s country: Canada
CamTran is a Canadian company (ISO-9001 certified), which specializes in manufacturing various kinds of oil-filled transformers and in their repair & renewal. Since 1982, it secured its position as Canada’s largest company with full-line distribution of oil filled transformers and is a constant marked leader in the fields of product quality, design & innovations. Having 3 locations in Canada, company owns a total surface of over 250,000 square meters of manufacturing space.
In 2012, Gecko Dynamics won a tender for delivery of a custom business process management software to improve CamTran’s business & manufacturing processes. The main part was focused around creating, storing, organizing, searching, viewing, editing, and controlling Standardized Work Instructions. The project was initially treated as a pilot project but was envisioned to grow and implement a larger custom software facilitating optimization of CamTran’s business processes, internally called Jive.
Results of the pilot phase led to maintaining a long terms cooperation, during which Gecko Dynamics has delivered a system than includes:
Instant access to all projects, KPI’s and critical customer information
Jobs management including specifications, drawings, time standards and completion checklists
Project & Issue management with workflow from origination to resolution
Document management
Production and financial forecasting Internal audits
Winding schedule optimization
TekeTeke
TekeTeke is an m-commerce digital ecosystem for focused on online shopping and delivery in Nairobi, Kenya, developed for the Kenyan enterprise Greenskies Investment as another project in their investment portfolio.
Duration: February 2018 – May 2018
Technologies used: Java for Android, Swift, PHP
Client’s country: Kenya
We took over the development of this project on demand of the client, after previous software development company failed to deliver the project within the desired timeframe, cost and quality. The product couldn’t be deployed to the market because of flawful application and our job was to bring the originally desired quality and make it running flawlessly. What is important to mention, while other companies contacted by the client were advising to develop the app from scratch with higher cost, Gecko Dynamics was the only one capable of working on the provided source code and refactor it instead of coding from scratch.
We started with thorough code audit to identify the areas for improvement and grouped them in various priority categories to give the client an overview of which improvements are critical and most urgent before deploying the app on the market and which can wait for later. After the code review, the client asked us to proceed with our findings which ended up in performing multiple tasks and improvements in mobile, backend & frontend parts of the system consisting of 4 main areas:
Native mobile application for iOS & Android for regular users (buyers):
Browsing for various shops and their products basing text search and products categories (food, clothes, electric products, beauty shops, sports, etc.). Sellers are the physical shops located in across Nairobi, Kenya.
Making the purchases choosing from products available in the shop
Paying via integrated mobile payment gateways that are specific and well-known in Africa, such as M-Pesa and Pesapal
Setting the delivery address
Signing up with email or Facebook, creating user profile
Showing orders history
Ability to use promo codes to get the discounts
Livechat with the app’s support consultants
Native mobile application for Android for the deliverers:
Registering with email
Getting the notifications about products ordered by the user and delivery address
Navigating to the delivery address
Livechat with support consultants
Web app for shops and sellers – separated from the main admin panel:
Registering the shop, creating its profile and adding the products
Managing the orders and their history
Basic statistics and reporting
Admin panel for super-admins and call-center employees:
Ability to manage the registered shops database (block, remove, etc.) and viewing their data, such as products and orders history
Chatting with users and deliverers
Statistics and reporting
Overview of the registered users and deliverers with ability to manage them (block, remove, etc.)
Adding new admins to the systems
Rubica
Rubica
Rubica Survey Builder is a custom survey creator developed for Rubica – British Change Management company to support one of their key business goals which is measuring various aspects of change management by surveying the staff.
Duration: March 2018 - November 2018
Technologies used: Java, React.js
Client’s country: United Kingdom
Rubica Change & Analytics Ltd. is a British company which primary expertise is conducting the change management across the companies, measuring the impact they create and leading the further development basing on the received results. Rubica needed a tool that will optimize one of their main business processes related to the change management expertise, which is surveying the employees of their clients on various aspects of their work life and assessing the correct conclusions.
Gecko Dynamics developed a surveying tool allowing Rubica to create custom surveys with various types of questions and basing on multiple custom design layouts. The system has been launched shortly after the development successfully conducting the first surveys with multiple clients and providing Rubica robust statistics allowing to evaluate the data and assess the correct conclusions.
123SignUp
Event management software called 123Signup is a complex SaaS system serving two main purposes – event management and membership plan management. The platform is currently serving numbers of various entities and organizations such as private companies, event organizers universities, local governments as well as NGOs and non-profit organizations and is recognized as one of the market leaders in the area of event management software.
Duration: July 2015 – Ongoing
Technologies used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Bootstrap, Jquery, Oracle DB
Client’s country: United States
The owner of the product reached out to us asking to take over the project after another company which failed to deliver satisfying results in terms of quality and deadlines. The very first version of the platform was developed a long time before that and was already one of the recognizable products in its industry at that time and . Therefore, there was a lot of legacy code that we had to take over and rewrite or refactor. The project also came with a lot of legacy technologies and frameworks, which also had to be rewritten into the modern stack.
Since there was a huge piece of legacy code, it was a natural step to start with extensive and thorough code audit. As a result, there were identified issues and parts of the system to be refactored or coded from scratch, which were later on prioritized. In the course of code refactoring, we also developed many brand new modules as well as redesigned the existing ones, both in terms of modern UI and optimizing the existing logic and processes.
The system and its main modules was rewritten into modern stack, after which we continued to work with other legacy modules and develop the new ones. At the same time, we were also providing the maintenance, support, DevOps and database administration services.
To sum up, we provided all the services listed above, working at every single bit of the system which includes:
Event management – highly sophisticated and advanced module covering all aspects of event management. That being said, everything from creating, through scheduling and calendars, to complex overview of participants and their management.
Membership management – enabling membership management to various entities using 123Signup as a SaaS platform. The module enables to create membership programs of various kind by admins and sell them to the users.
Donations module, which enables the users to make a donation for chosen entities, as well as creating ad banners in the web that redirects the potential donators to the donation module
Extensive reporting of various data and information gathered across the system
Website-builder enabling associations using the platform to create their own website through visual builder basing on predefined templates
Member directory, allowing members to search for other members and see their connotations with the organizations they are participating in
Online purchases of subscription plans (event / membership management)
Extensive billing module
Various roles of admins and users, enabled for the platform customers
3rd party services integration
Payment gateways integration, e.g. CSI Pay, PayPal
We also created an API for external entities serving various purposes, for example signing up for event from the external source, member authentication in external platforms, and more.
Admin area to manage the clients and their plans
Utopian Hotel Collection
Utopian Hotel Collection is a platform enabling users to book their stays in luxury hotels grouped by the highest rankings of standards.
Duration: April 2018 - August 2018
Client's country: United Kingdom
Technologies used: Javascript, Angular, C#, .NET
The client reached out to us after the previous dev company failed to deliver in terms of quality and deadline, which makes it a legacy project. In particular, the client complained about the slowly working website and constant crashes, as well as layout full of bugs. At a glance it may not sound as a very unique situation, but in the addition the client decided to set up his own development team and needed a company that will refactor the whole application, repair it, implement outstanding features and prepare it for the upcoming team who were meant to kick off from September 2018.
Therefore, our job was to not only finish what the previous team failed to deliver, but also to prepare the application and its code in a way that will make it easy for the new team to start working with it. We started with thorough analysis of the current technological situation and code audit, which discovered a lot of inconsistencies and errors in the code and overall architecture, which were causing constant crashes and were also slowing down the site. Following the audit results, we had to refactor the major part of the application, implement the outstanding features, prepare everything for the new team and conduct a step-by-step handover.
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Thank you Gecko Dynamics for becoming part of our journey
Their responsive communication stands out as a highlight. Augmenting the capabilities of an existing development team, Gecko Dynamics is a smooth collaborator. Future customers can expect a wide range of abilities to be available to them. All requirements will be fulfilled on time with Gecko. Our collaboration is straightforward and easy to deal with. They’ve provided us with the technical skills that we need. We’re always looking for a vendor that can supply technical skills when we need them, and Gecko always comes through. During our time with Gecko, the revenue coming from the product has doubled. It’s hard to assign responsibility specifically, but Gecko has been a critical part of our journey.
Happy with their work, recommended!
They get deeply embedded in an organization and create value. Their team is very intertwined with our company. Profitability is up with a recent project achieving a 25% increase in monthly revenue. Added features deepen engagement with existing customers and attract an ever-expanding range of new business. While close relationships are a key asset, they’ve created an informality in need of correcting.
Offered on time quick and reliable solution
Great project management and coordination. Project Manager was motivated, proactive and friendly. Their flexibility, team motivation, and speed were impressive. Gecko Dynamics built a quick and reliable solution that was bug-free and met the client's expectations. Delivering on time, the team had great project management skills. Throughout the course of the project, they remained motivated and proactive. Their team coordinated well and was very friendly.
They are definitely going to be our long term partner
By synchronizing production information across all 3 plants, the database system facilitated substantial company growth, leading to sales doubling over 4 years. Gecko Dynamics familiarized themselves with unique industry challenges to produce a customized solution and become a long-term partner. Their level of organization is one of their strongest assets. They visited our facilities to get a sense of how our operators work and asked the right questions. They watched our employees interact with the system in order to make improvements.
Satisfied with their work, will surely work with them in future!
They go the extra mile and provide alternative solutions rather than just going with the flow and accepting what we’ve given them. They’ve also given us options when we’ve given them a design and it doesn’t sit with the functionality.From a project management perspective, I’m very satisfied with their work. Senior stakeholder feedback from our managing director and heads of product and design has been positive, and they trust and like what Gecko Dynamics is doing for us. We will continue our relationship with them going forward for any necessary software support.
Excellent service!
They’re great communicators. They’ve been more flexible than other development companies. We had a complicated, variable project. They’ve been great at supplementing our team with high-level developers as needed. The Angular and Java developers have met all expectations, shown great attitude, and communicated well. They’re knowledgeable problem-solvers. We rely on their recommendations to complete tasks.
Great to work with them.
Relationship-wise, we work very well with Gecko Dynamics. Their outputs were pretty much on the mark. They hit the target and produced something that was way better than what we could’ve achieved internally. We're still working on marketing but people who’ve seen the original version of what Gecko Dynamics created have been really impressed. One of the good things about working with Gecko Dynamics is that they were very happy to talk through what we were doing and why we were doing it. They understood what our needs were and applied that in their work. My advice is to not just use them as a resource but to let them be part of what you build.
Highly recommended!
Despite being located in different time zones, the teams collaborated seamlessly through clear, direct communication strategies. Attentive, their willingness to explain technical aspects impressed. Throughout the different iterations, they communicated clearly, translating technical aspects of the development into ideas that I could easily interpret. Whenever we had a problem, they presented me with 3–4 potential solutions.
Their work is beyond the expectations!
The entire site development process with Gecko Dynamics has gone seamlessly. I’ve received many compliments on how modern and easy the site is from users. Gecko Dynamics’ quality of work is superior to others I’ve seen — they always go above and beyond to meet my expectations and ensure there are no issues with the deliverables.
The project manager that I’ve been working with is great. Gecko Dynamics has met all my deadlines and the clear deliverable expectations we set up at the beginning of the project. I’m seeing a great return on investment with Gecko Dynamics. Their developers are extremely skilled in multiple coding languages and can build out the site while still maintaining it.
Amazed with the quality of work!
Around 60% of the company’s development team has come from Gecko Dynamics, and they’ve generated a 100% increase in revenue per year because of them. The team quickly fills roles with talented developers. They pay close attention to the business’ needs. They also communicate closely with the client. Gecko is a boutique shop. They provide the attention and the understanding that we need as a business to be successful. They’ve always helped us achieve our goals and solved our problems.
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