CodeNex

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Supertext

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Swedish startup related to messaging and telecommunications

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CodeNex to accomplish?

• AWS Cost Optimisation services
• Migrate applications from Docker Swarm to AWS Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as a code

SOLUTION

How did you find CodeNex?

Referral

Why did you select CodeNex over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from CodeNex were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

• all cloud infrastructure is now represented as code
• project was migrated to use kubernetes
• a lot of optimizations were made on AWS resources reducing cost by 30%
• extensive documentation was added
• different environments were unified
• CI/CD pipeline was modernized

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• AWS bill was reduced by 30%
• GCP bill was reduced by 50%
• onboarding a new developer is taking 2x less time
• everything related to infrastructure is explicitly specified in the code, no magic and no surprises
• we got rid of some old technology in stack which was deprecated many years ago but nobody was dare to touch it

Decreased Monthly AWS bill

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Response time was very short, we were consulted on every step on the way with very detailed explanations in case a decision to be made had any trade offs we should be aware of.

Delivery speed was very high, in some times we were a bottleneck to accomodate for all those changes.

What was your primary form of communication with CodeNex?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They care about the things they do and take responsibility for them

Are there any areas for improvement or something CodeNex could have done differently?

They could have a bit more vacations

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CTO of an IT services company. We partner with startups and companies to design, develop, and launch digital products, offering end-to-end tech expertise and ongoing support to help businesses grow and adapt their products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with CodeNex?

We needed help with the DevOps part of a project. More specifically, we needed help migrating a project from an AWS ECS setup to an AWS EKS setup.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

CodeNex migrated a project from an AWS ECS setup to an AWS EKS setup. The team also created multiple staging environments, migrated the deployment logic from GitHub Actions to Jenkins for all staging environments and the production environment, made the production environment horizontally scalable, and optimized AWS costs. CodeNex handled almost all of the tasks and needed minimal project-specific information from us.

What is the team composition?

We worked with one teammate from CodeNex.

How did you come to work with CodeNex?

We found them through an online search. CodeNex’s pricing fit our budget, and they were referred to me.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from July 2025–January 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

CodeNex completed all the tasks with little support from our side. The team moved from one to five staging environments and reduced the monthly costs by around 30%. The system could also automatically scale when specific CPU or RAM thresholds were met.

How did CodeNex perform from a project management standpoint?

CodeNex delivered 99% of the work on time. When the team didn’t meet the timeline, they informed us and explained the reason. We communicated via virtual meetings and email or messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

CodeNex’s proactiveness and technical independence were impressive. The team needed only minimal support regarding the project.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, everything was okay.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CFO of an IT services company. We connect businesses with vetted remote software engineers, specializing in full-stack, frontend, and backend development to ensure seamless team integration and project success.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with CodeNex?

We needed help with DevOps on Azure and Google Cloud.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

CodeNex created high-scale DevOps for various projects. The team handled infrastructure setup, automation scripts, and monitoring tools.

What is the team composition?

We worked with 2–5 teammates from CodeNex.

How did you come to work with CodeNex?

Someone referred CodeNex to us. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings, and their pricing fit our budget.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent between $10,000 and $49,999.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from February 2025–January 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

CodeNex delivered robust systems that worked. The team met our requirements, and we had more scalable projects with fewer bugs and issues on the hosting side.

How did CodeNex perform from a project management standpoint?

CodeNex delivered on time. We communicated via virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We were impressed by CodeNex's professionalism and the number of certifications they had.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There's nothing they need to improve.