Bank of America
Hand holding, Training and Coaching

Headquarters
United States
Technologies Used
Scala, Akka
Industry
Finance
A United States-based Financial Services company dedicated to providing digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance, and fintech companies in the U.S. and internationally. With comprehensive end-to-end solution sets, the company enables its partners to provide cohesive, secure, data-driven experiences to every account holder – from consumers to small businesses and corporate
Challenges
With extreme growth on the horizon, they needed to re-train and motivate the existing developers to reconstruct major portions of the system on Scala.
Solutions
The hand-holding and coaching included architecture planning and designing with the team to use the best practices of Scala Ecosystem.
Results
The training and coaching enabled the team to become conversant with the best practices, and they confidently built the system with knowledge about the Scala Ecosystem.
Challenges
They were heading towards an ambitious goal of improving the performance and stability of their derivatives platform which involved huge amount of transactions to the booths and depots. With extreme growth on the horizon, they needed to re-train and motivate the existing developers to reconstruct major portions of the system on Scala. With their existing Scala development team a fraction of the size they needed a plan of attack.
Solution
The Architects and Engineers from Knoldus worked for hand in hand with the development team of the financial institution to train the existing engineers on Scala and to get them started with development. The hand-holding and coaching included architecture planning and designing with the team to use the best practices of Scala Ecosystem. Knoldus now audits the system every few sprints to ensure that the best practices are being adhered to.

Results
With Knoldus engineers working alongside the in-house development team, Organization realized benefits by getting started on a strong footing. The training and coaching enabled the team to become conversant with the best practices, and they confidently built the system with knowledge about the Scala Ecosystem. The Global Markets group originates, sells and trades financial assets through established trading hubs, exchange memberships and primary dealerships in all the major financial markets across the Asia Pacific region.