Case Studies | Athen
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Fintech • Series B

NexPay Global

NexPay needed to migrate their legacy monolithic payment gateway to a Rust-based microservices architecture to handle Black Friday traffic spikes. Local hiring was taking too long.

72 hrs
To Deploy Team
30%
Latency Reduction
Rust Kubernetes gRPC AWS

The Challenge

Existing Java monolith was crashing under 500 RPS. Internal team was maxed out on maintenance.

The Athen Solution

Deployed a specialized pod of 3 Senior Rust Engineers and 1 Tech Lead. The team integrated into NexPay’s Slack and Jira within 48 hours and began refactoring critical paths immediately.

“The Athen team didn’t just write code; they re-architected our core transaction loop. We survived Black Friday without a single second of downtime.”
— Sarah J., CTO at NexPay
Healthcare AI • Seed

MediScout

MediScout required a HIPAA-compliant RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline to process patient records securely. They lacked specialized Vector DB expertise.

2 Mo
Ahead of Schedule
100%
HIPAA Compliant
Python LangChain Pinecone Azure

The Challenge

Handling sensitive PII data while leveraging LLMs required deep knowledge of data sanitization and vector search optimization.

The Athen Solution

Athen provided a Principal AI Engineer and two Senior Backend Developers. They built a secure, air-gapped pipeline for embedding generation and retrieval.

“Finding engineers who understand both LLMs and strict compliance is impossible. Athen found them in a week.”
— Dr. Aris K., Founder at MediScout
Logistics • Enterprise

GlobalFreight Corp

A Fortune 500 logistics firm needed to modernize a 15-year-old on-premise Java system to the cloud to reduce operational costs and improve tracking visibility.

$2M
Annual Savings
10
Engineer Squad
Java Spring Boot AWS Lambda Terraform React

The Challenge

Costly on-premise hardware maintenance and inability to scale during peak shipping seasons. Internal IT was resistant to change.

The Athen Solution

We deployed a “Tiger Team” of 10 engineers to work alongside internal staff. We implemented a strangler-fig pattern to slowly replace legacy modules with serverless functions.

“The velocity difference was night and day. Athen brought modern DevOps practices that our internal team adopted and now loves.”
— Michael T., VP of Engineering

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