5th Kind

5th Kind are based in Los Angeles, California. They are the workflow backbone used by the world’s most innovative entertainment companies and consumer brands. CORE by 5th Kind centralizes and secures all digital files to improve collaboration, eliminate duplication, simplify access and reduce costs.

For over a decade, they have created cutting edge technological solutions to make their clients’ lives easier and have been proud to serve as the workflow backbone for more than 50+ blockbuster productions across Hollywood’s major studios including Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Rovio and Sony Pictures.

Challenge

5th Kind urgently needed to expand their development team to meet their client’s ever growing requirements. They had to do this in the most cost effective and flexible way possible whilst retaining the high standards of quality and on time delivery that their customers expect.

Solution

Jamaza have worked with 5th Kind for over 2 years and now provide a full time team of 9 developers backed up by our in-house project management and human resources.

We use Agile methodology and tasks are organised via daily scrum meetings so that 5th always have a clear picture of what is planned, what is complete and how long is needed to complete all tasks.

Technologies Used

BackEnd
•    PHP 5.x, 7.x, Symfony, Doctrine, Silex
•    Elastic search, rabbit.mq, redis
•    MySQL, Python 3, Perl, nginx, Apache,
•    ImageMagic, lib avi, Azure, ffmpeg, web socket

Mobile
•    Sencha touch,
•    Cordova, objective C.

Other
•    Git, LiquidPlanner
•    Debian, Jenkins, Fabricator.