New Way Now: Quantiphi reimagines the SDLC with Gemini, boosting developer productivity by 30% 🚀
8Summary: Mohak Moondra, Head of Data & Platforms at Quantiphi, a Google Cloud Premier Partner, reveals how they're using generative AI to help their developers be more productive and deliver better outcomes to their customers, faster. Discover how the award-winning, AI-first digital engineering company is leveraging Gemini to tackle complex data and application modernization projects for clients with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
Challenge: In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses need to maximize developer productivity to stay ahead of the curve. Quantiphi recognized the need to empower their developers with cutting-edge tools that streamline workflows and accelerate development cycles.
Solution: Quantiphi integrated Gemini into their custom-built code acceleration platform, Codeaira. This platform, seamlessly integrated into developer workflows, uses Gemini's capabilities in code generation, completion, customization, and explanation, enabling Quantiphi's developers to tackle complex projects with increased speed and accuracy.
Results: By adopting Gemini Code Assist, Quantiphi has witnessed a 30% boost in developer productivity, with some of its more experienced developers realizing productivity gains of over 50%. With its 2M long context window, Gemini enables rapid understanding and version upgrades of extensive codebases, reducing tasks that previously took Quantiphi months to a few weeks. This translates to faster delivery times for clients and a significant reduction in development costs.
One striking example of this enhanced efficiency is Quantiphi's work with a property and casualty insurer. Tasked with refactoring and translating 5,000 legacy SAS (Statistical Analysis System) and DataStage jobs to a Google Cloud-native solution, Quantiphi leveraged Gemini to complete the project in just six months — a feat that would have taken over a year using traditional methods.
Another example: Quantiphi routinely tackles the challenge of deciphering large, undocumented codebases — a common pain point for many enterprises. Moondra cites a specific use case involving a client's COBOL programs dating back to the 1980s. With no documentation and the original developers long gone, understanding this legacy code would have taken months of manual effort. However, using Gemini Code Assist, Quantiphi could rapidly analyze and comprehend these outdated programs, even identifying patterns to help translate them into more modern languages. This ability to quickly unlock the secrets of legacy code is crucial for businesses looking to modernize their systems without lengthy delays.
Interview highlights and key takeaways from our full interview with Mohak Moondra, Head of Data & Platforms at Quantiphi:
→ "With Gemini Code Assist, we are seeing the productivity of developers go up by more than 30% … And some expert developers are seeing productivity gains of north of 50% as well."
→ "I think the next revolution in terms of code assistance is going to be how we think about AI agents... Agentic workflows is the right way to think about how to impact the software development life cycle.”
→ “The beautiful part of this is that developers today, or at least the junior developers today, will not have to learn traditional programming languages… Enterprises can onboard these developers faster, they can understand the system functionalities faster, and they can use these AI-assisted programming tools like an expert tutor, at no cost available to them. So it's just going to make them more and more productive.”
→ In working with their own customers, Quantiphi sees a consistent demand for generative AI solutions that address five key areas: boosting knowledge worker productivity, accelerating content creation, streamlining code refactoring and translation, building data-driven conversational agents, and ultimately, infusing gen AI into every application and product.
Google Cloud products used: Gemini, Vertex AI
Learn more:
→ Quantiphi website: https://quantiphi.com/
→ Gemini Code Assist: https://cloud.google.com/products/gemini/code-assist?e=48754805