Building a Bridge for India’s Skills Gap, Right Across the Cloud

Trans Neuron is a technology start-up engaged in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enabled cloud solutions for India’s underserved skilling industry. It has created a thriving skills ecosystem, through bringing together academia, students, large corporates, and government agencies onto innovative digital platforms. Trans Neuron’s platform features include industry aligned courses, skill acceleration programs, collaborative learning tools, certifications, live projects and internships, virtual incubation for young entrepreneurs, cognitive bot career counselling, online mentorship, teacher training, and AI hiring tools.

Challenge

India has a growing supply-demand gap for skilled manpower across sectors. Several academic institutions across the country are inadequately staffed, lack necessary infrastructure, and are insufficiently exposed to the industry for placements, curriculum development, and trainings.

Towards addressing these challenges, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), an agency of the central government, signed a partnership agreement with Trans Neuron for innovative technology solutions. During the early start-up days and during the initial phases of idea development, software developers were coding, testing, building, and deploying the user interface (UI) and backend API services manually through their laptops and local servers. As the initial platform grew in scope and complexity, updates and new features had to be regularly deployed, and its infrastructure also needed to be scaled up to be able to serve users across the nation.

However, the inchoate processes typical of a start-up company were giving rise to delays and missed deadlines. Trans Neuron felt the need to streamline their efforts, and approached Minfy for help with a framework for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).