The environment we work in is very conducive to concentration and reflection, being modern, spacious, and a stone's throw from a scenic walk along the river Soar. Now in my third month of working at Viva IT, currently based out of dockleicester.co.uk, this is a chance to take stock and share a little of my experiences.
An update on brand new features we have developed for organisations that use our Apollo NXG system. We are certain that some of the features on this list will be directly useful to your Credit Union.
I would like to start off by saying that all of the staff at Viva IT were all incredibly friendly and would help answer any question I had to the best of their ability. Going into the work experience I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I did however know what I wanted to get from it - which was to see actual software development on a professional level.
My first 3 months at Viva IT has changed my perspective on work and software forever.
It was on a recommendation that I attended Agile Nottingham’s Return of the Lego Simulation in Nottingham. People who had been to the first event raved about how clever and informative it was.
When I realised it had been a month I couldn’t quite believe it. Since starting here, time has escaped me and the days fly past. It’s surreal to think how much I’ve learnt, yet there’s still much more learning to be done.
We create our own web apps from the seeds of an idea and scale them up to mission critical services. Our team has experienced many growing pains of scaling such services and are pretty adept into reducing bottlenecks and profiling apps to ensure that they run efficiently.
To help new members of the team and to give an insight into how things work here, here's a few things that I would have loved to have known before I started working here.
In February 2016 we recorded over 18,000 live balance enquiries and over 1,700 withdrawals using the mobile app for a single credit union. With thousands of members logging in weekly shows just how important live access to your money is.
Like last year all our developers elected to go to PHPNW15 for three days of training, conferences and networking. What a fantastic event it was!
