Case Studies · EdTech

A data lake for ethics & compliance learning at global scale.

A provider of ethics-and-compliance programs to Fortune 500 employees — 500+ courses, 70+ languages, 30M+ learners a year — had its data trapped across Postgres, MongoDB and third-party systems. We consolidated it into a secure, GDPR-compliant AWS data lake and made learning effectiveness measurable.

Industry
EdTech / Compliance
Technology
AWS · Glue · QuickSight
Duration
4 months · 4-person team
Scale
30M+ learners / year
The opportunity

Rich data, scattered across silos.

The client delivers compliance programs through a white-labeled portal, tracking course completions in Postgres, portal activity in MongoDB, and employee feedback in third-party systems. Consolidating it — and evaluating learning effectiveness across 70+ languages — was the core challenge.

Fragmented sources

Course completions, portal activity and feedback lived in Postgres, MongoDB and third-party tools like Salesforce and QuestionPro — with no unified view.

Manual processing

30M+ learners a year generate enormous volumes of data; consolidating it efficiently meant cutting heavy manual processing.

Measuring effectiveness

The client needed to evaluate learning outcomes by analyzing feedback and completions — not just store the data.

Multi-language scale

With 70+ languages served, region-level data had to be managed through a single generalized structure.

Cross-region sharing

Comparative visualization required securely sharing data across regions — while respecting data-residency rules.

Strict compliance

As a compliance company itself, the client demanded a GDPR-compliant solution with tightly controlled access.

The solution

A meticulously designed AWS data lake.

We implemented a streamlined migration and a data lake on AWS that handles complex, nested formats, upholds rigorous data-quality standards, and runs on frequent processing schedules — with a secure pipeline that consolidates datasets and enables cross-region comparison.

Migration & ETL

Data pulled from Postgres and MongoDB via AWS DMS, plus third-party systems like Salesforce and QuestionPro, then cleaned, translated and partitioned with AWS Glue ETL jobs over intricate, deeply nested structures.

AWS DMSAWS Glue

Secure data lake

A centralized S3 data lake with encrypted files and multi-format support, governed by Lake Formation for fine-grained access and authorized-user-only sharing.

Amazon S3Lake FormationAthena

Embedded dashboards

Multiple QuickSight dashboards built and embedded directly into the product portals — secure, performant, multi-tenant, with language and sentiment analysis layered in.

QuickSightNLP / Sentiment

Data Extraction

AWS DMSPostgres · MongoDB
AWS Lambda3rd-party pulls
Salesforce · QuestionProFeedback systems

Processing & Data Lake

AWS Glue ETLClean · translate · partition
Amazon S3Encrypted data lake
Lake FormationSecurity & RBAC

Analytics & Visualization

Amazon AthenaAd-hoc querying
Language & Sentiment70+ languages
Amazon QuickSightEmbedded in portals

GDPR via separate US & EU implementations — only anonymized data combined across regions for benchmarking · CI/CD with multi-level monitoring & validation

Highlights

What the platform delivers.

Language & sentiment analysis

Across 70+ languages, the platform detects language and generates sentiment, providing an analytic description of each client's dashboards.

Automated, change-aware pipeline

Frequent source-data changes are immediately reflected in the final dashboards, with end-to-end automation, CI/CD, and multi-level monitoring that alerts on any data, ETL or infrastructure failure.

Scales to 4TB

Handles a high influx of data at speed — currently up to 4TB — with each component able to scale independently.

GDPR-compliant by design

Separate implementations in the US and Europe, combining only anonymized data across regions for benchmarking purposes.

Technology stack
AWS GlueAmazon S3AWS LambdaAWS DMSAmazon AthenaAmazon QuickSightAWS Lake FormationSalesforceQuestionPro
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