Marsh
Marsh Insurance is one of the worlds largest insurance providers
Marsh
A risk trading platform for insurers and underwriters. Primarily focussed on the UK/EU mid-market sector.
Tech used
- J2SE
- Spring Boot
Features
- Electronic risk trading
- Low level optimisations
My role
As technical lead I was responsible for the development of the platform. In particular, I was responsible for managing the offshore development team.
Major challenges
We had a large offshore team with varying levels of ability. Some developers were excellent however many were not. This resulted in a significant management overhead. The internal governance programme meant that the project was subject to review on several occasions. During the review process all development was halted. This proved to be a great challenge. The stop-start nature of the project meant that we lost some of our best developers.
The solution
J2SE based native application with a Spring based backend. We performed many low level optimisations including:
- Off heap memory
- C++/JNI components
- Direct byte buffer manipulation
- GC tuning
What did I learn?
Stopping and starting a project can be very costly, especially if the suspensions are unplanned.
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