A Day in the Life of a CIO: Andrew Cresp, CIO, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

For the second time in his career, Andrew Cresp, CIO of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has experienced what he describes as “the cloud stall.”

This is where the easy apps with a strong business case such as the bank’s consumer lending platform have been shifted the cloud. Other apps that manage payments and branch debtors, for instance, are more difficult to prove a return on investment.

Cresp and his tech team have been able to overcome this issue by using generative AI and the MongoDB open-source database to rewrite application code so the bank can more easily shift some of its older apps to API-enabled cloud infrastructure.

“Fundamentally, what we are seeing is a 90% reduction [in human effort] in the migration of cloud and API-enabling assets. At the same time, it reduces risk [associated with] upgrading the code, but also documenting and creating regression test scripts,” he says.

“So,…