In Ferrara there is a company that provides services and consultancy specialised in managing complex environments and logics and that helps customers achieve their goals through tailor-made IT solutions. A company that brings together professionals who design advanced technological solutions. Giampaolo Colletti interviews Simone Checcoli, founder and CTO of DotEnv, for FARE INSIEME
by Giampaolo Colletti
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This story begins in the heart of Romagna and ends in Ferrara. It is the story of DotEnv, a company that deals with software development. And now let's start with the name. DotEnv, a small npm package that in computer language is a configuration file that is used in almost all applications and that allows you to manage the configuration of a software. «Simple and at the same time complex. Because if on the one hand it is useful and used, on the other hand it is not easy to create. In order to insert it correctly into the source code, you need to know the context of the software solution perfectly and have a clear understanding of its application perimeter. In this sense, we like to think of ourselves as being similar to a .env file because for each client who relies on our experience, we analyse the context and design the application perimeter. In short, we adapt to the client's needs just like a .env file», says Simone Checcoli, founder and CTO of the company. In fact, it opens up to new scenarios and different environments.
Company profile. Strength in numbers. What's more, it creates a network. In the first year, there were four of us and today the company has fifteen people. We work on three souls: the creative one to study the interfaces for any screen on which to make an application, the back-end one that determines all the complex flows of a project and then the one relating to the creation of the web and mobile interface. We work particularly in Italy, with some clients abroad for a turnover of over half a million euros. «We have always reinvested our profits to increase the number of people and make business investments, improving our technology and potential. Every story begins with an ambition. And playing as a team makes the difference. Sharing increasingly complex projects with an increasingly larger staff has pushed me to do all this. Today, we are chosen mainly by banks and companies in the pharmaceutical sector, but we also support many innovative start-ups», says Checcoli. We are in Ferrara in an area that has recently been redeveloped. Simplifying complexity, especially in virtual environments. This is what DotEnv's mission revolves around. «Not being a product company, but a service and consultancy company, we have specialised in managing complex environments and logics. Over time, we have gone from being a simple technology consultancy company to becoming a true partner, helping customers achieve their goals through customised IT solutions», recalls Checcoli.
Customised software. «Commercial software often forces customers to adapt. With custom software, however, we create a solution that adapts perfectly to the customer's needs, ensuring that it responds exactly to their needs. Creating custom software is like building a house or a tailor-made suit. We offer services that start from the design and prototyping, moving through strategic phases with the customer, up to the creation of the final software. Customisation occurs during each phase, modifying the project as the software takes shape», says Checcoli. Four years after the first company, an innovative start-up in the AI field was founded with widespread entrepreneurship with employees who became partners and we surveyed who wanted to make this quantum leap from mere employee to entrepreneur. «Today in Neurally, which focuses on solutions based on artificial intelligence algorithms, we are five partners. A successful bet», concludes Checcoli. One thing leads to another. A lesson learned from the best organisations.
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