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Azlo Case Study - Financial Services
Making Entrepreneurship Accessible With Mobile Business Banking
The summary.
We developed new bank features, built CI/CD pipelines, and migrated from Mongo DB to Postgre SQL for the Fintech company. After 18 months of working with Azlo, they doubled their customer count.
"The engineers from BairesDev were tremendous. We needed to clean up our data and tighten up our flows. They basically built a new service from scratch, working with our data services team to track down all our transactions, build pipelines, and migrate our data to an SQL database. They used cutting-edge technologies and workflows and made sure everything integrated with our full line of services. Their attention to detail while never losing sight of the bigger picture is what made it work."
CIO, AzloAbout Azlo
Azlo was a digital banking platform created to help entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses grow. Founded in 2017, Azlo was backed by BBVA, a Spanish bank with an annual revenue of $34 billion USD.
The challenge.
Statistica found that in 2022 there were 31.9 million people with a side gig. Almost twice as many compared to 2020. Recognizing the need for integrated billing, payment, and low fees, Azlo set out to bring accessible digital banking solutions to the market.
FinTech is a competitive market with stringent security regulations. Azlo needed CI/CD pipelines to deliver new features promptly and comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations.
CI/CD pipelines allow developers within a team to merge their portion of code into the main branch, automate testing, and maintain open feedback loops. This catches flaws and bugs early without stalling launches. We introduced strategic DevOps into Azlo's team structure to enable quick and secure development flows.
In 2022, the 4 largest US banks combined reported 131.5 million active mobile banking users. As more customers adopt mobile banking, ensuring app usability, security, and high performance in purely digital banking companies is paramount. Azlo needed UX/UI engineers to map the user experience and preempt challenges and problems. This would help convert brick-and-mortar customers into digital banking ones. Azlo also needed to adopt a comprehensive framework for GDPR requirements, cybersecurity for compliance, and PCI DSS requirements specific to Fintech.
To convert brick-and-mortar customers into digital banking ones, Azlo needed: Strategic DevOps to develop CI/CD pipelines; a comprehensive framework for GDPR requirements; and UX/UI engineers to map the user experience.
The solution.
We provided a team of experienced engineers with backgrounds in FinTech security protocols, over a dozen different technologies, and design thinking.
All technologies used.
The outcome.
During our 2-year engagement we:
- Developed new bank features including an online credit card, invoice automation, budget “envelopes” to allocate expenses like payroll and taxes
- Refactored their onboarding application for better UX/UI, enabling customers to adopt the platform easily
- Built CI/CD pipelines
- Migrated from Mongo DB to Postgre SQL for cleaner data
- Conducted unit and integration testing to ensure new features integrated seamlessly with Azlo's banking services.
After 18 months of working with Azlo, they doubled their customer count.
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