Case Study: Hostaway ships four times faster with Swarmia

How Hostaway started shipping four times faster while doubling their engineering headcount

Hostaway is a rental management software company headquartered in Finland with a globally distributed engineering team. As the organization grew, Director of Engineering Adam Kupcewicz needed a better way to understand what developers were working on and where productivity bottlenecks were emerging. He turned to Swarmia, an engineering intelligence platform, to get clearer visibility into the metrics that mattered most.

With Swarmia, Hostaway tracked cycle time, review rate, time to first review, and investment balance, then used those insights to improve working agreements and engineering processes. Swarmia helped the team cut time to first review to under 24 hours, reduce cycle time by 50%, increase review rate by over 30%, and lower technical debt from 24% to 5%, all while nearly tripling engineering headcount and shipping much faster.

Hostaway

Adam Kupcewicz

Director of Engineering