Company Overview
- US-based digital finance firm
- $800M revenue
Tech Overview
- 1,500+ Servers
- 250+ Applications
- 2 Large, recent aquisitions
Business & Technical Challenges
- Rapidly expanding customer base was stretching legacy systems
- 3 brands, providing similar services, were managed on different legacy tech stacks increasing costs
- On-prem infrastructure was unreliable, costly and inflexible
- Applications and database bloat challenged the dev and support teams to maintain and innovate
- Unplanned outages and increasing P1 issues led to revenue loss and made planning and forecasting unreliable
- Conducted comprehensive review of all projects/resources, identified redundancies and proposed an overarching cloud-based architecture
- Established standard DevSecOps and resource tagging policies
- Leveraged AWS Landing Zones and Control Tower to automate resource creation using security and compliance best practices
- Designed a data warehouse using AWS Redshift to centralize all data capture, storage, processing and eventual archiving / sunsetting
- Consolidated and migrated all applications and their data to the cloud in a phased manner
- Built customized reporting using AWS Athena and QuickSight that combined customer interactions across all 3 brands,to provide a unified business view
- Faster provisioning of systems, from days to hours, accelerates innovation
- Higher flexibility, agility and resilience provided by the AWS cloud vs. on-prem
- Resource tagging + restrictive IAM policies improve enterprise security profile
- 30% reduction in IT total cost of ownership through data-center exit and consolidation
- 50% reduction in tech-debt which means increased focus on innovation
- Automated CICD deployment and standardized DevOps processes
- 50% reduction in tech-debt which means increased focus on innovation