What we do

Ovyo provides flexible Engineering team & talent services to the streaming (video/media), satellite and comms industries. If you need extra capacity in your Engineering or delivery teams that’s ready to hit the ground running, Ovyo will quickly provide highly experienced & capable resources or teams from one or more of our global delivery centres to augment your teams or to take over delivery of a certain area or project.

If you are looking to scale up your own off-shore or near-shore teams, we also provide strategic resourcing services where we can find people to either join you directly or on a try-before-you-buy basis.

We provide industry-experienced people & teams on a short-term or long-term basis, with a fast start and a flexible offer. For example, we can provide a whole Scrum team of Developers and QA Engineers alongside a Scrum Master and BA to take ownership of a project or initiative for the medium term, e.g. 9-24 months, or we can provide 3 specific Software Engineers or PMs to augment your team to help you deliver more for a shorter term period e.g. 3-6 months.. And naturally there’s complete flexibility on how many people and how long for.

Customer-Centric Commercial Models

One of the founding principles of the company was to be a more customer-centric services company, so we are flexible commercially and work in a range of structures depending on your preferences and the number of people, length of engagement and the extent to which you want us to take ownership of work direction etc. There are five main ways that we describe the different structures we tend to work in:

How we help

What this model is best for

How we're different

What we call it

Team augmentation

Managed teams

Strategic resourcing

Fixed price software

Consulting

On demand people & small teams to help deliver software & projects. We provide experienced people from our teams in India (working CET if wanted), Portugal, UK, South Africa, Brazil, US or Eastern Europe. All our people are experienced & knowledgeable industry experts, are stringently technically vetted and have great English comms.

Experienced Engineers (or other technical or nontechnical resources) to flexibly join and support your existing teams per your established ways of working.

Ovyo is laser-focused on the industries we serve, so we can hit the ground running and add value from Day 1. All our people are experienced (we don’t hire Grads or Junior level) and we can work CET hours from India or US EST-PST hours from Brazil. We pride ourselves on how quickly we can respond to your needs and all work is overseen by a Customer Success Manager who holds regular reviews with you.

Teams to take over all or part of a project or roadmap, who can provide technical leadership if wanted, blending your and our ways of working to maximise results. Often medium-term or long-term engagements. All our people are experienced & knowledgeable industry experts, are stringently technically vetted and have great English comms.

Ready-made teams when you need large capacity quickly to take over a defined piece of a work such as a platform or project on a longer-term basis (possibly including Operations teams, including 24/7 models), or with greater input on technical guidance & ways of working.

Ovyo is happy to adopt as many of your ways of working as you want, whether we are working off-shore, near-shore or mixed-shore. We never lose sight that we are delivering a service for you and your customers. We are happy to ”white label”, where our involvement is transparent. We have an onboarding methodology called PISTON to ensure we are successful and we measure KPIs and perform regular reviews to ensure you are happy.

Strategic recruitment support find the best off-shore or nearshore talent to onboard into your teams, either immediately or on a try-before-you-buy basis, often when you have ambitious goals to scale an internal office or delivery centre quickly.

Opening / launching a new, or expanding an existing offshore or near-shore office where you need to rapidly bring people in to your company.

Ovyo offers the flexibility to “try before you buy”. Whilst we offer this support due to our excellence in talent acquisition, we are not a recruitment firm, we hire many of these roles ourselves so we have a large ready-to-go database of people and understand how to interview and put the right people in front of you and manage the candidate experience endto-end. We have a deep understanding of the nuances of hiring in India, Portugal and other off-shore and near-shore locations, with candidate databases to match, so we can ensure you are effective in scaling as quickly as possible.

Designing, developing, testing and deploying apps and software encompassing front-end, cloud / back-end and integration work.

Commissioning some custom software when you have well-documented acceptance criteria, well-documented APIs & high confidence your requirements will not materially change.

Ovyo can help you leverage the price points of off-shore teams but can also offer on-site or near-shore personnel as part of the project if you need face-to-face interaction. As a partner to some of the industry’s biggest operators, we understand the need for the highest quality software and steward this approach in all our projects.

Access to the most targeted experienced consultants in the business, to help you tackle a complex project, specific business issue etc., focused on providing documented, actionable advice.

A complex business goal such as advice on achieving certain outcomes, process improvement, best practice implementation on architecture / ways of working etc., or where you need advice from niche expertise.

Ovyo doesn’t have a vested interested in the outcome of consulting. As a boutique firm, we can ensure your interests are always put first. We only offer the most relevant and experienced consultants so you’re not paying for Grads to learn on the job. We are very focused on the actionable and documented nature of our advice so you retain full control over next steps.

TECH STACK

Ovyo teams have expertise across a range of tech stacks including a wide range of front end application technologies (e.g. Android and Android TV, iOS and tvOS, Roku, a range of Smart TVs & games console, React & React Native, HTML etc.), cloud native software (e.g. AWS, GCP) and other technologies such as Java, NodeJS, .NET, Python, and OSS/BSS platforms such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. Our teams are adept with a range of database technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD tools.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

OUTSOURCED FRONT-END APPS

Team size peak 25

For OTT platform provider

Managed teams model

Long-term engagement to take over all app feature development & bug fixing for a Tier 1 operator on our customer’s behalf. Our team successfully delivered an aggressive roadmap which included complex elements such as swapping out the Player & DRM provider, and new payment gateways. Provided Dev & QA expertise across iOS, Android, Smart TVs & web.

CLOUD-NATIVE SOFTWARE DEV + DEVOPS

Team size 4

For Tier 1 Operator

Fixed price software model

Apache Airflow + AWS cloud-native metadata & content workflow management tool with infrastructure as code, created by team in India for a Tier 1 telco with ongoing DevOps support. We were able to develop this at a price point far below what our customer had been quoted by incumbent providers.

INDIA OFFICE RE-LAUNCH

Team size 60

For global satellite operator

Strategic resourcing model

Hiring networks, software, operations and product team members for our customer’s strategic growth of their office in India, requiring very rapid onboarding of a large team, a mix of people directly joining them and some “try before you buy” team members, leveraging our location knowledge & large talent pool.

PROGRAMME DELIVERY MANAGEMENT

Team size 2

For international broadcaster

Consulting model

Provided dedicated Project Manager and Business Analyst resources to oversee a strategic investment in DAI, with which the broadcaster had limited previous experience. Expert resources defined and delivered a roadmap (including liaising with internal and 3rd party technology teams) which delivered the additional monetization channels required.

QA AUTOMATION

Team size 3

For Tier 1 Operator

Team augmentation model

Overhauled test automation practices including tools, processes, test packs etc. relating to end-to-end testing of the global network provisioning platform for an international telco. Higher automation allowed for faster deployments of customer functionality & improvements in NPS.

SALESFORCE & SERVICENOW OPTIMISATION

Team size peak 36

For major international telco

Managed service model

End-to-end technical and delivery responsibility to migrate, redeploy & optimize Salesforce & ServiceNow platforms for a large B2B telco, allowing them to launch a range of new services. Teams were retained beyond MVP to add functionality such as a web self-service journey. Ovyo also provided various PMs, BAs, Architects & Product Owners relating to other OSS/BSS components and Mulesoft.

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY ABOUT US

Ovyo teams are not just project teams, they are experts who are delivering exceptional results

"At OneWeb we are creating an easy-to-use digital ecosystem to manage the operations behind our LEO network. Working to an aggressive timeline, Ovyo have provided expert project teams for some key strategic digital hubs but these teams are not just project teams, they are experts who fit seamlessly with our OneWeb team and who are delivering exceptional results. I personally enjoy working with Ovyo because they have an uncanny way of deeply understanding our needs and anticipating our future needs. They find the right candidates quickly and manage the process thoroughly, with exceptional communication throughout."

Clare Frary

Senior Product Owner, OneWeb

An invaluable partner underpinning our innovative video strategies

"Ovyo have provided a range of services for us on our most critical projects as we continue to delight our video customers across Europe. They are an invaluable partner underpinning our innovative video strategies. I can always very quickly leverage either their highly capable offshore team or their fantastic network of Associates in the video industry, and I know I will get top-tier service from first rate teams. "

Augusto Silva

Head of TV Product Delivery, Deutsche Telekom