OriginsAI Powering NuCash’s Growth
NuCash, India’s leading financial app for students, is now faster, more secure, and even more cost-effective thanks to OriginsAI. We supercharged their platform with lightning-fast performance, rock-solid reliability, and powerful new features. From streamlined workflows to optimized infrastructure, NuCash is ready to empower the next generation of students with a financial experience that’s built for success.
About NuCash Money
NuCash is India’s premier digital banking platform tailored for students, offering a zero-balance savings account, a RuPay virtual debit card, and easy UPI payments. With secure partnerships and RBI-regulated insurance, NuCash ensures deposits are safe up to ₹5 lakh. Students can access quick education loans and invest in digital gold, empowering their financial journey. Built with advanced encryption and multi-factor authentication, NuCash provides a seamless mobile experience on iOS and Android, making it the trusted choice for student-focused, secure digital banking.
Our Partnership with NuCash
Industry
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Services
Security Engineering Cloud Cost Optimization CI/CD Pipeline Optimization Infrastructure Design & Deployment
Business Type
Startup
Technologies Used
Python
Golang
Kubernetes
Terraform
Jenkins
OpenTelemetry
Redlock
The Challenges
Encryption Bottlenecks
KMS rate limiting created frequent encryption delays, impacting processing speed and user experience, especially during peak usage times.
Inefficient Deployment Pipeline
The multi-stage deployment pipeline was slow and complex, creating bottlenecks in testing and release cycles. This hindered NuCash’s ability to deploy updates and patches quickly, impacting agility.
Limited Visibility
Without a unified monitoring solution, it was challenging for teams to assess the health and performance of EKS clusters and services. This lack of visibility made tracking and troubleshooting issues difficult, slowing response times.
High Cloud Costs
AWS infrastructure costs were elevated, partly due to underutilized resources and lack of optimization. The high expenditure on AWS services was a burden on operational budgets and needed effective cost management.
Async Task Management Across Languages
Managing asynchronous tasks efficiently was difficult, especially with services built in both Golang and Python. The lack of a unified approach made task coordination and worker setup more complex.
The Solutions
Enhanced Encryption Efficiency
Redesigned encryption to work without KMS rate limiting, reducing latency by 900ms, thus providing a faster, more reliable encryption process for a smoother user experience.
Streamlined CI/CD with Jenkins
Optimized the CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins for automated, multi-stage deployment, cutting down pipeline latency by 5 minutes and supporting quicker releases.
Comprehensive Monitoring Tools
Integrated tools like OpenTelemetry and Lens to provide end-to-end visibility into EKS clusters and service performance, enabling real-time issue tracking and improving response times.
AWS Cost Reductions
Reduced AWS costs by $1,500 by implementing optimizations like spot instances, right-sizing, and efficient resource management to keep operational expenses low.
Strengthened Compliance
Collaborated with banking partners to ensure rigorous security compliance, aligning with industry regulations and safeguarding user data to foster trust and transparency.
See our Excellence being validated
What Our Partners Say?
Apoorva came in and not only took over the full backend technology but also built an amazing team of talented engineers who were hungry to make an impact. He optimized our technology function end to end starting from building an in-house technology team
Ashit Joshi
Ex Director of Engineering Chegg
Gaurav is super good at troubleshooting issues and does necessary research and identifies the approach/root cause. Given a problem he comes up with quick proposals/solutions with the required amount of research.
Sathishkumar Subramaniam
Amazon
From the start, Apoorva impressed me with his remarkable creativity. He consistently brought fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to the table, challenging the status quo and pushing our team to think outside the box.
Rupesh Bansal
Software Engineer