Product Transformation: How Lantern Rewrote an Entire Product in Less than 3 Months

Lantern, a public benefit corporation, offers software and resources that guide family members through end-of-life planning, including funeral plans, wills, last wishes, and logistics. The Lantern team had a three-month deadline to rewrite its entire product. The need to hire became critical as new releases introduced bugs in their core platform with every commit and deploy. ​

Lantern looked to Andela for help hiring senior engineers to take the product from MVP to V1 and accelerate their testing. Immediately after onboarding, Andela engineers wrote test code against Lantern’s core platform that minimized the bugs from deployment and commits. ​

This improved a critical application that was taking 39 seconds to load down to one second. With the help of Andela engineers, Lantern met its 3-month deadline, revolutionizing its ability to serve customers. ​