
Avant Assessment
Taking-on platform sprawl to keep an industry leader on top

BEFORE
Online language testing leader Avant had grown its platform offerings quickly, but not strategically
Online language testing leader Avant had grown its platform offerings quickly, but not strategically
Its fragmented network of products had become hard to manage and clunky to use
Its fragmented network of products had become hard to manage and clunky to use
Infrastructure inconsistencies and tech debt were blocking further expansion and evolution
Infrastructure inconsistencies and tech debt were blocking further expansion and evolution
AFTER
Consolidated eight non-standardized products into one cloud-based platform
Consolidated eight non-standardized products into one cloud-based platform
Hosting costs cut by 75%
Hosting costs cut by 75%
Modernized interface dramatically improved product adoption and engagement, spurring immense growth for its team, revenue, and customer base
Modernized interface dramatically improved product adoption and engagement, spurring immense growth for its team, revenue, and customer base

Featured technologies

React
- Data visualization & charting
- Novel web-based voice recording feature
- Cypress end-to-end testing

LearningWrite Autoscoring Platform
- MLOps & Integration
- Machine Learning with Random Forest
- Automated Language Proficiency scoring using NLP

Kotlin & Java
- Spring Boot framework
- Hibernate & Postgresql
- Extensive unit testing
- Robust Datadog (APM) intergrations
- QR code processing pipeline for handwritten work submissions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Migration
- Migrated all services from data center to AWS
- Infrastructure-as-code via CloudFormation & Docker
- CI/CD & automated build
- Multiple environments with auto-scaling
- Audio format optimization pipeline via SQS

Compliance Support
- WCAG – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- GDPR
- FERPA

Extensive & Complex Technology Migration
- Merging of multi-year forked codebase
- Graceful merging of three deployments into one
- Planning allowed minimal downtime