We hold the conviction that every startup with a promising and innovative idea deserves the chance to bring it to life through an accessible and intuitive product. However, the specialized talent needed to achieve this is scarce in the job market, as these professionals are often snapped up by major software development firms like Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe, or by smaller IT outsourcing companies such as IT-Provider.co. The reason?

There are principally two methods to motivate a software development engineer: offering a competitive salary or providing an engaging project. While large corporations tend to lean towards financial incentives, Managed Services Providers present a variety of project opportunities. This approach allows developers to avoid the monotony of working on the same technology stack for extended periods. Engaging in IT outsourcing work means encountering a diverse array of tasks and technologies.

Moreover, many of these projects grant developers carte blanche, enabling them to leverage the most current technology available. This keeps software engineers updated with the newest, stable software versions, allowing them to fully utilize these tools in their projects. Consequently, clients receive a future-proof software solution, crafted with the cutting-edge of technology, ensuring their products remain operational and relevant in the foreseeable future.

IT-Provider.co specializes in comprehensive software development, including full-stack, Big Data, and blockchain technologies. With extensive experience across the spectrum of software development, we craft both front-end and back-end components for web and mobile applications, architect and implement infrastructure for blockchain applications, and facilitate Big Data analytics and machine learning/artificial intelligence models. Our expertise extends to decomposing monolithic applications into microservices, containerizing applications for enhanced scalability, and developing niche platforms for live broadcasting and online dating, among others.

Our toolkit encompasses a broad spectrum of cutting-edge technologies:

• Cloud Platforms: We leverage leading cloud services such as AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, OpenStack, and OpenShift to provide scalable and robust cloud solutions.
• Operating Systems: Our expertise spans across various operating systems, including Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, CoreOS, and Windows Server, ensuring versatile application deployment.
• Front-end Technologies: We utilize a range of front-end development tools and frameworks, including PHP/Laravel, Angular.js, JavaScript, Vue.js, React.js, Node.js, Python/Django, Google Firebase, and Nginx ingress, to create intuitive and dynamic user interfaces.
• Back-end Technologies: Our back-end development capabilities include PHP/Laravel, Python/Django, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Nginx ingress, enabling robust and efficient server-side solutions.
• DevOps Tools: To streamline development pipelines and infrastructure management, we use Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Prometheus + Grafana, FluentD, Splunk, SumoLogic, ELK Stack, Vault, and Consul.
• Big Data Tools: For handling large datasets and performing complex analyses, we employ Apache Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, Apache Spark, Keras, TensorFlow, Scrapy, and Raspberry PI.
• Blockchain Tools: We are proficient in blockchain technologies and tools such as Ethereum, EOS, Decred, Livepeer, Cosmos, and Factom, enabling us to develop secure and decentralized applications.
• eCommerce Tools: Our team has experience with eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, etc., to build comprehensive online retail solutions.

The technologies we employ form a comprehensive list that is not all-encompassing; we are always ready to expand our technology stack to meet the specific needs of a project, ensuring we deliver exceptional solutions to our clients.

Software Development Team Structure and Roles
Collaborating with a dedicated software development team from an IT outsourcing firm like IT-Provider.co brings the significant advantage of a well-organized, effective team structure tailored to meet any project's demands. Each software engineer at IT-Provider.co plays a crucial role within this framework:

• Team Lead/Cloud Architect: This individual has the vision to oversee all aspects of the development and operation of your future product, ensuring tasks are appropriately delegated to deliver every system module promptly.
• SRE (System Reliability Engineer): With a deep understanding of application scaling challenges, the SRE plans both software and infrastructure architecture using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach for rapid and automated environment provisioning, leveraging tools like Terraform & Kubernetes.
• CI/CD Engineer: Specializing in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines, this engineer ensures that new code commits can lead to immediate product releases following successful testing and staging, significantly saving time and resources.
• Release Manager: Essential for managing version control with Git and GitHub, the release manager plays a key role in organizing a smooth development process, reducing time-to-market, and cutting software delivery costs by overseeing the multitude of project versions developed concurrently.
• DevSecOps Engineer: Prioritizing security and compliance from the outset of development is crucial. A developer with a keen awareness of potential security threats implements necessary safeguards early in the development cycle, avoiding last-minute security fixes.
• Dev+ Engineer: Often, immediate coding adjustments are required during the build, test, stage, or release phases. Having developers who can swiftly address minor issues without delaying the release process enhances the reliability and resilience of the product development lifecycle.

This structured approach allows our team to efficiently tackle projects of any scale, ensuring flexibility, security, and quality in the development process.

This configuration is ideal for creating comprehensive, large-scale enterprise applications. For smaller projects, the team size can be adjusted accordingly, typically involving a project manager (PM), a few developers, and one or two DevOps engineers. It's worth noting that the roles of Product Owner and Project Manager can be fulfilled by personnel from either the client's side or ours.

At IT-Provider.co, assembling such teams is a seamless process, thanks to our robust pool of current staff. Should there be a need for additional expertise, we have immediate access to a database of over 1,000 pre-screened professionals, enabling us to swiftly compose the perfect team tailored to the unique needs of your project.

Choosing to outsource software development to IT-Provider.co brings several advantages, especially when considering what truly motivates software developers and DevOps engineers beyond financial compensation. These professionals thrive on the opportunity for growth, mastering new technologies, and adopting the latest best practices to enhance their skill sets. Continuously working on the same project can offer stability but often leads to stagnation, as the technology used does not change, nor does the complexity or variety of tasks.

When developers are not challenged or given the chance to progress, their engagement and motivation can wane. In contrast, exposure to diverse projects and the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies can significantly boost a specialist's abilities. While large corporations attempt to address this by offering professional development opportunities such as conferences and training programs, the real-world application of newly learned skills is crucial. Without the opportunity to apply these skills on a regular basis, their value quickly diminishes.

Outsourcing to a third-party company like IT-Provider.co provides a solution that benefits all parties involved. Projects are completed efficiently, utilizing the latest technological advancements, by driven professionals who are continuously learning and applying new methodologies. This environment allows developers to explore a variety of projects, rapidly assimilating and applying the best solutions for each unique challenge. This approach ensures a dynamic and innovative development process, where teams are equipped to devise fresh software architectures swiftly without "reinventing the wheel."

At IT-Provider.co, we handle a wide range of projects every year, assisting companies of all sizes in developing and updating their software products and services, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and enhancing the overall efficiency of IT operations.