We started with moving all services from legacy unsupported Vagrant VM setup to Docker Compose. Our team took care of the code clean-up, refactoring, and supporting an old codebase within the new functionality. It allowed us to reduce the ownership cost and continue work on infrastructure optimization.
With every new feature realized, the Wise engineers also created comprehensive tech documentation and simplified the onboarding process for new teammates joining the project, both from the Wise team and teams from other countries.

We decided with the client to launch a new Bid Retraction feature because deleting a bid was a time-consuming manual process for the admins. To delete a bid, someone from the tech team had to run a SQL query in the database and perform additional testing to make sure that it didn’t affect other auctions/bids.
With the new feature, admins could delete any bids placed accidentally or that are no longer valid directly from the auction admin page. It helped Paddle8 to unburden the tech team from multiple requests and made the overall process of removing misplaced bids more secure.

There were two mobile applications the Wise team delivered. The first one was an iOS application on React Native that basically duplicated the functionality of the website from the collector’s perspective. There was a personal user profile with a history of bidding, users could buy items at a fixed price, and place bids taking parts in the online auctions.
The second app for iPad was aimed at in-house use in offline events exclusively. The app, also written on React Native, allowed guests to place bids for the artworks that were presented during the particular offline auction.