Case Study: BNY Mellon (Pershing) achieves 66% more feature delivery and rapid, secure DevOps with Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle

Nexus Lifecycle Manages Risk and Delights Developers

Pershing, a BNY Mellon subsidiary that manages $2 trillion for 1,300 clients, set out to modernize its software delivery in the face of enterprise complexity and strict regulatory constraints. The challenge for Derek Evans, Pershing’s Director of DevOps, was to transform slow, ticket-driven builds and deployments into a modern, compliant DevOps practice without increasing risk for the bank.

Evans paired cultural change with improved tooling—CI/CD, automated deployments, IaC, automated testing and Nexus Lifecycle for open source governance—so teams could move code quickly and safely. The results are measurable: build times dropped from two hours to about seven minutes, teams deliver roughly 66% more functionality, defects are caught earlier, and Nexus Lifecycle provides both risk mitigation for management and immediate, welcomed guidance for developers.

BNY Mellon

Derek Evans

Director of DevOps