Awana: The Mozo Platform
Awana is a national, faith-based non-profit organization that initially collaborated with Pathos Ethos to develop a new software platform for a learning management system. During the project, the company’s needs shifted, and our team successfully adapted to create a digital management tool for their members. Here are some highlights we take pride in: The project utilized an Angular frontend, a Java Spring application server, and a Postgres SQL data model. We integrated it with existing software platforms that had been in use at Awana for years, including Salesforce for member data, Gigya for single sign-on authentication, and a proprietary platform for product distribution. Our team was responsible for setting up and maintaining all development operations, including AWS Elastic Beanstalk for the application server, Bamboo for continuous integration, Redis for data storage, and a javadoc documentation layer. Despite having no prior software development experience, we trained their IT team to operate as an effective Scrum development team, as well as mentoring their Director of Curriculum to become a true software product owner. After training their team, we continued to collaborate with them for an additional six months beyond the initial contract, working on product development until we successfully transferred maintenance responsibilities to their internal staff.