Otus, LLC
To give students, teachers, school leaders, and families the tools and insight necessary to create a culture of success while maximizing learning.
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Who we are
Otus is an early stage Education Technology company that’s focused on building a next generation platform for K-12 classrooms, schools, and districts. Designed by teachers and school administrators, Otus empowers teachers in the classroom, informs school leaders, keeps students engaged and organized, and helps parents stay better connected. We deliver value to our communities by building a platform that is designed, developed and delivered by one team with a shared mission and vision.
Our mission and vision
To level the playing field for K-12 education via technology and empower educators and parents with the tools to transform the education of our children across the US.
Architecture, Platform and Innovation
Otus is a building a next generation Platform for EdTech in order to support our transformative vision for K-12 education across the US
- A core HA platform built on public cloud infrastructure for a microservice architecture (Kubernetes)
- A suite of new microservices and systems written in Node and the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
- Create and own the core libraries and frameworks used to build microservices at Otus - a mix of OSS and custom libraries that are selected for speed and ease of use
- A brand new data and event platform based on high throughput streaming tech (Kafka, Snowflake)
- Operations tooling, metrics and monitoring (Prometheus)
- CI/CD pipelines with Blue/Green and Canary deploys (Spinnaker)
- Performance and failure testing (Gatling)
What we value
Humility, a strong work ethic, flexibility, collaboration, technical curiosity, and constant learning.