THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING A DATA DRIVEN FINTECH APP AND ORGANIZATION

WED 11:15 - 11:45

This is a 2017 presentation

n January 2016 Yolt was founded as a startup owned by ING with the ambition to become a money management platform. Currently Yolt operates in the UK market to help users change the way they think about money. Yolt combines data of different bank accounts in one application to deliver relevant (real time) insights for the users.


In this presentation Roderick will talk about:
-    The strategy of Yolt and what it means to launch a start-up out of a corporate organization
-    The balance on speed of delivery, quality of the software & models, and the design for scalability with technologies like Kubernetes and Spark
-    Lessons learned from the past 1.5 year in the different organizational models we tried with data scientists and about the architectural choices we made.
 

This lecture is made possible by GoDataDriven.