OKOMO is an award-winning Swiss Software as a Service company, OKOMO has a clear mission: to make the internet a warmer place by enabling businesses to delight their customers through a more human, convenient and simple customer experience.

With an elegant, custom-tailored all-in-one voice, video and screen-sharing solution, OKOMO integrates easily into every online channel, helping online visitors easily find, collaborate and stay connected to the right person in an organization directly through the company website, effortlessly, at any time and from any place.

At OKOMO, we want to enable online customer engagement at a human level because we deeply believe in the power of real-time human interaction.

Initiative: Okomo Companies Near by – Geolocation functionality

The core of the initiative is a functionality to help the Okomo eco-system find peers/companies that are also using Okomo and  network/communicate with them easily, based on proximity of geolocation.

Technology Stack: 

Back-End: Node.js + Typescript;

Front-End: Angular, Typescript; DB: MongoDB; QA Stack:  Postman; DevOps & Cloud: Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud.

Team: 10 Team members: 1 CTO, 1 Technical Lead – Front End, 1 Technical Lead – Back End, 1 DevOps & Cloud, 4 Software Engineers and 1 Quality Assurance Engineers 

Project Management:  Agile Scrum, daily stand-up meetings. 4-week sprints (3 weeks for development and 1 week for testing and release) grooming.

IGA Team Extension: Two team members that worked on building the geolocation support using google maps, integration with the services of GM and integration with the existing system. We had one Technical Consultant – Software Engineering and one Senior Technical Consultant – Software Engineering  where the team’s main responsibilities were developing the back-end integration of the solution with Google Maps services as well as creating a UI interface that would display the services on the Front-End side of the SaaS solution.