Stable operations behind a fast-growing digital marketplace

The client

Használtautó, the well-known vehicle marketplace, has been operating since 1999. Besides the web application, the company’s product is also the Használtautó mobile app, which is approaching 55,000 downloads. After a series of ownership changes (Schibsted, Adevinta), it has been part of the Ingatlan.com portfolio since 2023, when it also separated from Jófogás. The company now employs close to 80 people, twenty of them in development.

The IT leader

Patrik Sándorfy started his career at Jófogás, then owned by Schibsted, as a developer intern. As the company grew, he was given more and more responsibility while climbing the ladder. Still at Jófogás he led a team of five or six, then in 2018 he moved to Használtautó, where he rebuilt the IT development team. After the company became part of Ingatlan.com in 2023, he was appointed Head of IT. The IT development team had ten members at the time, which has since been doubled along strategic goals. Most of the team’s work is architectural renewal.

On solid foundations even in times of transformation

Andrews first came into contact with Jófogás back in 2013, when it was still owned by Schibsted. At that time a Dutch company operated the Jófogás servers, which came with several disadvantages. Their IT leader at the time recommended Andrews as a hosting and operations partner based on his own experience. As soon as Használtautó joined the Schibsted portfolio, its operation was also entrusted to Andrews.

Because of the 2023 change of ownership to Ingatlan.com, the Használtautó team moved to the Millenáris Avantgarde office building, a major project for the development team in 2024. Andrews played a big part in this period too. They had set up the internal network in the previous office building as well, but there Jófogás and Használtautó still largely shared the infrastructure, so Andrews played a key role in the separation, both in networking and in operations. During the physical move, Andrews also supported the colleagues responsible for infrastructure within the group, so that they could properly take over the tasks assigned to them.

A partner in change

According to Patrik Sándorfy, the Andrews colleagues have excellent expertise and answer every question. Working together since 2013, the two companies have been through a lot and have built a very close relationship. Andrews also provides on-site support, and on those occasions the Andrews colleagues blend completely into the life of the IT team, in brainstorming, optimisation and implementation alike.

The cooperation reached a major milestone with the change of ownership to Ingatlan.com: Ingatlan.com uses AWS, so management had to decide whether to continue the operations partnership with Andrews. After lengthy analysis they decided, purely for business reasons, to go with AWS, hoping it will serve their long-term plans better. Accordingly, the transition began in 2024, which Andrews fully accepts and accompanies. The Andrews team has therefore been working in the recent period on helping Használtautó move off their solutions successfully, and they are absolutely helpful in this. They continue to deliver the maximum in everything, and the quality of their service has remained unchanged.

How a truly committed IT partner helps

Patrik Sándorfy highlighted the flexibility of Andrews and their ability and willingness to collaborate, which shows not only in their communication, readiness to act and the quality of their service, but also in billing. For migrations and test periods, Andrews put extra servers at Használtautó’s disposal free of charge for a few months, which proved to be a huge help.

In the cooperation since 2013 there were also cases when Andrews had to act as an emergency to fix a fault. On such occasions they went to the Használtautó team in person, even in the middle of the night, to investigate and fix the problems together. These situations also showed the flexibility and helpfulness of Andrews, because resolving the situation as soon as possible mattered to them too.