Architecture · Integration · Cloud · AI

Accelerate your time-to-market and cut operating costs.

We design, integrate and modernize mission-critical platforms for banking, fintech, insurtech and retail across Latin America and the United States.

What do you need to solve?
  • Modernize the core without stopping operations
  • Expose Open Finance APIs securely
  • Get the cloud bill under control
  • Detect incidents before customers do
  • Bring AI into real business processes

45 min · no cost · with our CEO, CTO or CDO

360° observability · OpenTelemetry Digital channels[Container: Web / Mobile] Third parties[System: Open Finance] API Gateway[Container: Kong/Apigee] Microservices[Container: Kubernetes] Event bus[Container: Kafka] AI agents[Container: LLM + RAG] Legacy core[Existing system] Lakehouse[Container: Iceberg] Cloud[IaC: Terraform] REST · mTLSFAPI · OAuth2CDCstreams
Container view (C4 model) of a typical platform we modernize: from legacy core to events, open APIs and AI.
  • 20+years of combined experience
  • 40+projects delivered
  • 5countries served

Trusted by leading organizations

Banking, retail, logistics, education and the public sector.

  • Sistecrédito
  • Grupo Éxito
  • Grupo Nutresa
  • Monokera
  • EPA
  • Febeca
  • Satrack
  • TCC
  • Metro de Medellín
  • Picap
  • Intelix
  • ESU
  • Universidad de Antioquia
  • Universidad CES
  • IPS Salud Antioquia
  • Telecafé
  • Parque Explora

What we do

We turn legacy systems into open, observable, AI-ready platforms, without stopping the operations your business runs on.

years of combined experience
20+
projects delivered
40+
years as an elite firm
5+
countries served
5

The cost of standing still

Three problems that stall transformation and raise operational risk.

We see them every day in financial services, insurance, manufacturing and retail. Each one has a concrete answer.

  • The problem

    Rigid legacy systems

    Monolithic architectures that block innovation and pile up technical debt. Launching a new financial product takes months.

    Our answerApplication modernization
  • The problem

    Runaway cloud spend

    Monthly bills that blow past budget, with no visibility into cost by service, region or team.

    Our answerCloud architecture optimization and FinOps
  • The problem

    Operational blind spots

    No latency, availability or performance metrics. Incidents take hours to resolve, and missing traceability creates regulatory risk.

    Our answer360° observability

Solutions

Tangible outcomes, not generic services.

Four capabilities we combine around the business problem you need solved.

We move legacy systems to distributed architectures that scale on demand.

  • Microservices, event-driven and CQRS
  • Staged modernization roadmaps
  • Architecture governance with C4 and ADRs

We bring AI into real business processes, at production quality.

  • Intelligent agents and natural language processing
  • Machine learning for decision-making
  • Cognitive process automation

We connect disparate systems securely and in real time.

  • Enterprise APIs, gateways and message buses
  • Real-time and batch integration
  • Faster vendor onboarding

Full visibility into how your platform runs, and what it costs.

  • Observability, traceability and monitoring
  • Lower MTTR with smart alerting
  • FinOps to optimize cloud costs

Open Ecosystems

Architecture for the open economy.

We turn your architecture into a revenue engine. With Open Finance and Open Data we break down silos and deliver secure interoperability, so your company meets regulation and leads the open economy.

  1. 01

    Open Finance and Banking

    Scalable architectures for regulatory compliance and monetization of financial APIs.

  2. 02

    Open Data strategy

    We turn information silos into open data assets with governance, quality and immediate business value.

  3. 03

    Secure integration

    We connect core banking with third parties using advanced security standards and real-time event-driven flows.

  4. 04

    Advisory and assessment

    We assess your technology maturity so you can lead in open finance and clear the technical debt holding you back.

Standards we work with: OAuth 2.0FAPIOpenAPIAsyncAPIEvent-driven

Case studies

Proven in mission-critical operations.

We don't sell hours. We answer for outcomes in some of the region's most demanding operations.

  • Sistecrédito · Colombia

    An Open Finance architecture roadmap

    Financial services
    See challenge, solution and impact
    Challenge
    Regulatory risk and rigid architectures facing Open Banking.
    Solution
    Strategic advisory and enterprise architecture for Open Finance.
    Impact
    A roadmap to speed up time-to-market for new financial products, with compliance and scalability built in.
  • EPA · Costa Rica

    Automated supplier onboarding

    Retail
    See challenge, solution and impact
    Challenge
    Bottlenecks when onboarding new suppliers to the product portfolio.
    Solution
    Optimized and automated onboarding workflows.
    Impact
    Dramatically shorter item registration and management times, with direct efficiency gains in the core business.
  • Grupo Éxito · Colombia

    High-volume interoperability without interruptions

    Retail
    See challenge, solution and impact
    Challenge
    Operational blind spots and latency when matching millions of critical records.
    Solution
    Modernized batch interoperability layer plus observability.
    Impact
    Operational continuity with fewer incidents and uninterrupted high-volume processing.

Why IkiTech

Companies choose us because we answer for outcomes.

  • Senior team end to end

    Senior architects and engineers from assessment to operations, with no layers in between.

  • Direct access to decision-makers

    Work with our CEO, CTO and CDO, not a chain of account managers.

  • Documented architecture

    C4, ADRs and infrastructure as code: your team inherits a system it understands and can run.

  • Close to North America

    Remote teams in Latin America with full working-hours overlap, in English or Spanish.

How we deliver

Engineering accelerators on every project.

Standard practice from day one, so we ship faster with less risk.

workspace.dslExample
workspace "Open Finance" {  model {    client = person "Cliente"    platform = softwareSystem "Plataforma" {      gateway = container "API Gateway" "Expone APIs" "Kong"      events  = container "Event bus" "Desacopla el core" "Kafka"    }    client  -> gateway "Consume APIs" "HTTPS"    gateway -> events  "Publica eventos"  }  views { container platform { include * } }}

Clear views of context, containers, components and code. Business and technology aligned from day one.

  • C4
  • ADRs
  • arc42
main.tfExample
locals {  tags = {    service     = "payments"    team        = "core-banking"    env         = var.env    cost_center = "CC-104"  }} resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "payments" {  name = "payments-${var.env}"  tags = local.tags   # FinOps: every resource has an owner}

Automated provisioning with reproducible, versioned and auditable environments.

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
.github/workflows/deploy.ymlExample
name: deployon:  push:    branches: [main]jobs:  ship:    runs-on: ubuntu-latest    steps:      - uses: actions/checkout@v4      - run: make test      - run: make image TAG=${{ github.sha }}      # GitOps: Argo CD syncs the cluster from the manifest      - run: ./scripts/bump-manifest.sh ${{ github.sha }}

Automated deployments, integrated testing and instant rollback.

  • GitOps
  • Pipelines
  • Testing
pipeline.yamlExample
pipeline: credit-scoringstages:  - ingest:   feature_store.read("customers_v3")  - train:    xgboost(max_depth: 6)  - validate: auc >= 0.82 and drift < 0.10  - register: model_registry.push(stage: "staging")  - monitor:  alert_on [data_drift, latency_p95]# Same pipeline, same result: reproducible by design

Training, validation and model monitoring pipelines with quality and reproducibility.

  • MLOps
  • LLMOps
  • Monitoring

Engagement models

Three ways to work with us.

Flexible enough to fit your operating reality and your budget.

  • Capacity

    Specialized staffing

    Senior engineers in architecture, development, DevOps, data and AI who join your teams right away.

    • Senior talent, modern practices
    • Architecture, development, integration and data
    • Immediate fit with your team

    Best whenyour team needs expert capacity now, without growing headcount.

    Talk to us about this model
  • Certainty

    Fixed-price projects

    Scope, deliverables and cost fixed from the start. No surprises.

    • Defined scope and deliverables
    • Fixed cost and timeline
    • Risk management included

    Best whengoals and requirements are clear and you need contractual certainty.

    Talk to us about this model
  • Continuity

    Development factory

    A dedicated on-demand team for continuous delivery in agile iterations.

    • Dedicated, stable team
    • Scales with your needs
    • Sustained speed and consistency

    Best whenyou have an ongoing product roadmap and want a team to carry it.

    Talk to us about this model

Free strategic assessment

Coffee with an Expert

A 45-minute session with our CEO, CTO or CDO to:

  • Review your specific architecture and infrastructure challenges.
  • Identify opportunities to cut cloud costs.
  • Propose a roadmap to speed up time-to-market.
  • Estimate the impact on ROI and operational risk.
  • 45 min
  • No cost
  • CEO · CTO · CDO
Prefer email? contactenos@ikitech.com.co CC Río Sur, Office 501, Medellín, Colombia

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FAQ

Questions we often hear.

If yours isn't here, a Coffee with an Expert is the best place to ask it.

Do you work with companies outside Colombia?

Yes. We support operations in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica and the United States. We work remotely, in English or Spanish, in time zones aligned with North America.

Which engagement model is right for me?

It depends on how well defined the scope is. Clear scope and a need for cost certainty: a fixed-price project. Senior capacity inside your team: specialized staffing. An ongoing roadmap: a development factory. We can decide together during a Coffee with an Expert.

What do I get from a Coffee with an Expert?

A free 45-minute conversation with our CEO, CTO or CDO. You leave with a read on your architecture challenges, cloud savings opportunities and a proposed roadmap with its estimated impact.

Which industries do you work in?

Financial services, fintech and insurtech, retail, logistics and transportation, education and the public sector. We focus on mission-critical platforms: the ones that can't go down.

Can you work alongside our current team and vendors?

Yes. Our models are built to plug into existing teams, document with open standards such as C4, and leave lasting capability in your organization.

Let's talk.

Tell us what you need to solve and we'll propose a concrete roadmap.

  • Senior team
  • Documented architecture
  • Fixed price or dedicated capacity
  • English · Español
  • Colombia · Mexico · Peru · Costa Rica · US