Colvir architecture bootcamp graduates have developed their first infrastructure projects
IT architects capable of designing systems, applications, databases represent high-density requirement of the moment, virtually a high-end role in the fintech solution development world. Colvir, as a vendor pursuing development and enhancement of technologies for financial entities and postal operators, has arranged for its professionals an architecture bootcamp.
The objective behind the Bootcamp was to facilitate company employee immersion in today’s information system construction world. The skills thus acquired would help our colleagues to form a coherent vision of principles that today underlie construction of sophisticated systems. The intention is to invite those of them who take an active part in further self-improvement to join new solution development teams as developers or architects.
The architecture bootcamp was managed by Sergey Chemisov, a visiting expert who had worked his way from a developer to company CTO, and has many years of experience acting as an architect in projects of diverse specifics and different scopes.
At the start of the bootcamp team members differed in their skill levels. The team included Colvir employees from two categories: those who had been for a long time dealing with architecture based on legacy technologies, and those who were using a state-of-the-art technology stack but do not have much system design experience. The main program emphasis was on state-of-the art approaches and tools. The course topics included as follows: application, database and data warehouse design, integration technologies, micro-service architecture, high-load systems, infrastructure and devops, security, reliability, handling large data volumes.
Sergey Chemisov
Coach, expert
By the time the bootcamp ended the participants had mastered a systematic approach to architecture design, a deep understanding of the state-of-the art tool range and its limitations, and they presented their end-of-course projects. Those were detailed level system designs, mainly those related to the fintech filed: a p2p loan origination system, a corporate HR portal, a risk assessment system, a traffic police process automation system, a marketplace, and some others. Some of them will be actually implemented by the company.
My key objective was self-development — a professional interest, a desire to update and expand my IT architecture knowledge, so as to be up-to-date with current trends and practices. I had developed an interest in this topic in my previous job with a bank. My impressions from the training course are completely positive, and I would like to say a special thank you to the coach who had selected relevant topics for the course, and has demonstrated a high level of professionalism, a remarkable reach of thought, and a deep knowledge in the IT architecture area. It was extremely useful to study additional materials and resources using links that were provided at the end of each class. This made it possible for me to review in detail those areas that I found interesting, and find information on relevant topics.
The knowledge thus obtained will definitely stand me in good stead in my current job when exploring application architectures, researching assumptions, analyzing current systems and drawing up technical solutions in response to enquiries received by the Production Department Technical Committee.
Sergey Kartashov
Production Department Technical Committee
Bootcamp participants have plans to continue their development in the system design area, and to apply the obtained knowledge in the course of working on real-life tasks. The delivered course (and future bootcamps) will bring about an improvement in the quality of architectural solutions developed by Colvir Software Solutions helping our customers along the way of digital transformation.
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