Developers supplied by DI Solutions
Dentsply Sirona
Dentsply Sirona is one of the largest manufacturers of professional dental products and technologies, and DI Solutions supplies development capacity to their team — working on DevTool, the cross-platform desktop utility their engineers use to discover, provision and diagnose dental devices.
What Dentsply Sirona does
The client
- Professional dental products and technologies
- One of the largest manufacturers in the sector
- Global operation
- Owns its own product direction
DevTool
- Device discovery over mDNS, Bluetooth or a manual address
- Provisioning, Wi-Fi, IP and DNS configuration
- Telemetry, live logs and diagnostics
- Local mock services for development without hardware
- Packaged for Windows, macOS and Linux
Our contribution
- Developers supplied to their team
- Angular front end, NestJS services, Electron packaging
- Staff augmentation, not a product build
- Engagement is ongoing
Inside DevTool
How we built it
Challenges
A manufacturer at this scale runs software alongside a hardware and devices business, and demand on the engineering side moves faster than permanent headcount can. Adding capacity without adding permanent hires — and without losing the internal standards the team already works to — is the constraint.
Our Process
We supply Node.js developers under a staff-augmentation engagement. They work inside Dentsply Sirona's team, to their priorities, their review process and their release cycle, rather than delivering a separate scope of our own.
Solutions
Additional back-end engineering capability available when the roadmap needs it, without the recruit-onboard-retain cycle of a permanent hire.
Results
An engagement that is still running. Dentsply Sirona keeps full ownership of its systems; we provide the Node.js capacity behind them.
At a glance
- Client
- Dentsply Sirona
- Engagement
- Staff augmentation, ongoing
- Sector
- Dental products and technologies
- Worked on
- DevTool, an internal device utility
- Front end
- Angular
- Back end
- NestJS
- Desktop
- Electron (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Live site
- dentsplysirona.com
Who is Dentsply Sirona?
Dentsply Sirona is one of the largest manufacturers of professional dental products and technologies in the world. Its business spans dental equipment and the technology that supports dental practices and laboratories.
What does DI Solutions do for Dentsply Sirona?
We supply development capacity to their team, working on DevTool — the desktop utility their engineers use to connect to and diagnose dental devices. This is a staff-augmentation engagement: our developers work inside Dentsply Sirona's own team, and Dentsply Sirona retains ownership of the product and the direction.
We did not build Dentsply Sirona's products. Our role is the engineering capacity, not the ownership.
What technology does the engagement cover?
An Angular front end, a NestJS backend exposing REST, WebSocket and gRPC services, and an Electron wrapper that ships the tool as a Windows, macOS and Linux desktop application. The work spans the whole of that stack rather than a single layer of it.
Is the Dentsply Sirona engagement still active?
Yes. The engagement is ongoing. We continue to supply development capacity to their team rather than having completed and closed the work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about our services, process, and how we deliver unparalleled digital solutions.
- No. Dentsply Sirona owns its systems and its product direction. We supply development capacity to their team under a staff-augmentation engagement.
- DevTool, the internal utility Dentsply Sirona's engineers use to work with dental devices — Angular on the front end, NestJS behind it, Electron for the desktop builds. They work inside Dentsply Sirona's own team and to their priorities.
- Yes. The Dentsply Sirona engagement is still active.
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