About Dedoko
Dedoko was a web agency that specialised in web applications developed in PHP using the CodeIgniter framework. They worked with two Management Consultancies on a suite of applications aimed at assisting with supply chain and spend management related concerns. Dedoko also built and hosted around 130 websites and web applications for roughly 100 clients ranging from marina/harbour management tools to childcare and book shops.
Dedoko was acquired by Efficio in 2016, Efficio absorbed the development team into a dedicated in-house development team for the Efficio applications.
My Role
I joined Dedoko as a PHP Developer in 2010 after completing my degree at the University of Southampton. At the time Dedoko was transitioning from an out-sourced development model to an in-house one as such I joined the company as the sole developer supported by the managing Director.
By the time I joined Dedoko had already sold a project to Vendigital to re-develop an application which had been built by a third party but never launched due to serious performance issues. As such I took ownership of the development of the application with the support of the Managing Director and the Vendigital team.
Following the successful launch of the re-developed application, Dedoko was contracted to further extend the solution as well as build new applications to solve additional Vendigital client requirements.
In 2012 I was promoted to Technical Director, I had already taken the lead on managing the development team and become the primary point of interaction for Dedoko's existing clients.
Following on from this Dedoko was engaged by Efficio to build a selection of tools to meet their client requirements. The Efficio contract became my primary responsibility handling the development and agreement of technical specifications, planning the development process, scheduling, monitoring and reporting on the completion of the project.
As part of my work at Dedoko I was responsible for solving complex problems which came up quite frequently in the application development area. Most commonly these would be performance related issues where collating data for a particularly challenging dashboard would take too long. My aim for Dedoko developed web applications was always that dashboards should take less than 1 second to render for the user, ideally with a page response time of 200ms or less.
I left Dedoko in 2016 following their acquisition by Efficio, at the time I did not feel that Efficio was a good fit for me. I chose to move to Vendigital to lead the creation of their in-house development team.
Technologies I worked with
- Bytemark / Linode
- Debian / CentOS
- Apache
- MySQL / MariaDB Columnstore / Redis
- PHP / Ruby / Perl
- Redmine / Jira / 10,000ft
- Various Payment Gateways
A reference from Dedoko is unfortunately not possible as the company no longer exists.
