Cloud-native modernization & production ML for FNB
Pygio helped FNB accelerate product delivery with cloud-native platform engineering and production-grade applications.
Business Requirements
FNB set out to modernize application delivery and enable containerized, cloud-native deployments — delivering core and online banking features spanning permissions, compliance UI, integration layers and online banking components.
The bank also needed robust integration and API layers for internal systems and external partners, plus production-grade data pipelines for offer recommendation, risk modelling and customer value.
The bank also needed robust integration and API layers for internal systems and external partners, plus production-grade data pipelines for offer recommendation, risk modelling and customer value.
Solution
Pygio delivered a set of platform, application and integration solutions, adopting a cloud-native, container-first approach to improve developer velocity, resiliency and business outcomes. Key improvements we’ve helped implement:
• Kubernetes-based Platform One
• Java microservices for core & online banking
• Robust API/integration layer, and ML-driven recommendation & risk systems
As a result, Pygio helped FNB ship five production modules with teams ramped to production-ready in two weeks, improving speed to deliver features by 25%.
• Kubernetes-based Platform One
• Java microservices for core & online banking
• Robust API/integration layer, and ML-driven recommendation & risk systems
As a result, Pygio helped FNB ship five production modules with teams ramped to production-ready in two weeks, improving speed to deliver features by 25%.
5
Production modules delivered
2-week
Ramp to production-ready teams
25%
Improvement in speed to deliver features
≥75%
Reduction in internal team workload
Key solution areas delivered:
- Core & Online Banking (applications) — implemented microservice-based Java applications and service modules for online banking, product and sales capabilities. Notable delivered components include Permissions, Fintegrate, ComplianceUI (CRS/OCEP), Selfenablement and the OASYS / “Mammoth” online-banking suite. Work covered full lifecycle delivery: design, implementation, automated testing and production handover.
Key technical traits: Java backends, RESTful APIs, relational databases with DBA-led tuning, automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines.
- Cloud-native platform & SRE (Platform One / Containerization) — delivered the bank’s platform (Platform One) vision: Kubernetes-as-a-service, a Containers COE, and a standardized containerization runbook to enable an orderly VMware → Kubernetes modernization. Platform capabilities included GitOps-based CI/CD, secrets & identity integration, CSPM/cloud security tooling, observability, and reusable platform assets for consistent deployments.
Key technical traits: multi-cluster Kubernetes, GitOps & IaC, CI/CD pipelines, observability (metrics/tracing/logging), SRE practices, and container security integrations.
- Integration & API layer — built robust integration layers and API gateways (synchronous REST & asynchronous event/queue patterns) to decouple systems, secure external interfaces, and support reliable inter-service communication (Fintegrate being a primary integration capability).
Tech Stack we work with
Client
FNB
Industry
Financial Services
Project start
2022 – present
Country
South Africa
Project focus
Software Engineering
Software Development
Product Development
Project Management
Data Science
Data Governance
Software Development
Product Development
Project Management
Data Science
Data Governance