From Fintech Prototype to AWS Production — SOC-Ready

Conductiv had a good idea and an audience that wouldn’t tolerate fragility. In fintech, one credential leak or one broken integration can end a bank relationship before it starts. They needed developers who built for the blast radius that reality creates — and they needed investors to see a development team that gave them confidence in the outcome.

The first time they reached out, the ask was a prototype. That prototype became the foundation of a multi-year partnership. We started as the engineering team that got them to MVP. Over time we became the team that helped them cross clouds, tighten security, and drive toward SOC compliance.

The shape of the engagement changed over time — that’s typical for us and it’s the honest version of how these things go.

Prototype. We stood up a hybrid team alongside Conductiv: senior developers and testers working in their cadence. Being in New York didn’t hurt either. Banks wanted to see faces, not email signatures.

Cloud migration. Conductiv’s initial prototype was built on Google Cloud. Later, AWS startup incentives made the economics clear, and Conductiv chose to move their platform to AWS. We led the migration.

Ongoing development. After the migration, our embedded developers stayed. The engagement ran as a time-and-materials relationship with named engineers — backend development, testing, DevOps, and architecture — growing to a larger team by mid-2021 as the roadmap expanded.

Compliance. SOC (Service Organization Control) is table stakes in the sector Conductiv plays in. We took on another architecture assessment specifically to stress-test for the audit — identifying where the switch from Google Cloud to AWS had left gaps, plugging them, putting controls in place to keep the platform secure.

An MVP that simulated a bank. Every new fintech needs a way to validate its process before a real bank will trust it. We built Conductiv a fake-bank MVP — a working simulation that exercised the full pipeline without exposing real customer data. Three early customers ran processes against it and gave us the signal loop we needed.

From prototype to working product. The MVP wasn’t the end. We turned it into a real working beta — real aggregators, production paths, bank-grade security — so Conductiv could start taking live traffic behind the right guardrails.

Google Cloud to AWS. Three senior developers led the platform move. We translated Conductiv’s services onto AWS, kept the product running through the cut-over, and set the AWS foundation up the way we wanted it to live — not the way a rushed migration leaves it.

SOC-readiness. The audit prep wasn’t a paperwork exercise. It was an architecture pass: identify what a SOC auditor would flag, remediate each finding, document the controls that prove it. We worked with Conductiv to close the gaps and put the reporting structure in place that makes SOC ongoing instead of event-driven.

Validated in market. The fake-bank MVP and the subsequent working beta gave Conductiv real customer banks to test against early, catching process gaps in simulation instead of in production.

A clean AWS foundation. The cross-cloud move landed on an AWS environment designed with SOC-readiness in mind from the start — not bolted on later under audit pressure.

Audit-ready. The architecture pass closed the gaps that the GCP-to-AWS move had left open and put controls and documentation in place to support Conductiv’s SOC compliance trajectory.

A partnership, not a handoff. Engineers stayed across clouds, across phases, across priorities. Conductiv didn’t have to re-onboard a new team every time the scope changed. That continuity is the thing we most often hear about from clients afterward — and it’s the thing that made the relationship last.