Krum × Synechron
For Avinash · Financial services partnership

Avinash, let's build the platforms financial services runs on.

Synechron has spent more than twenty years inside banks, insurers and capital-markets firms. Krum has spent a decade engineering the cloud-native platforms those institutions are moving onto. Each of us has half of what financial services clients need. Together we cover the whole job.

Krum
Since 2016
Building cloud-native technologies and applications, starting alongside the rise of containers and Kubernetes.1
Krum · SUSE
SUSE award winner
SUSE's 2024 Rising Star Emerging Technology Solutions Partner of the Year, awarded at SUSECON. SUSE describes Krum as a Diamond Partner.2
Synechron
20+ years in FS
Two decades on financial services problems across banking, capital markets, wealth, payments and insurance.4
Why Krum

Platform engineering is software engineering.

That line is Krum's whole philosophy. We don't sell hours of YAML. We build platforms like products, hand them over, and teach your client's teams to run them.3

01

Deep SUSE & Rancher bench

A technical partner that runs SUSE Rancher Prime in practice, not just on slides. For Day-2 operations, SUSE provides product support and Krum provides hands-on engineering, and clients can buy both as one bundle.1

02

Reusable platform stacks

Turnkey "Platform Stacks" on Rancher Prime, including the BARN stack (Backstage, Argo, Rancher, NeuVector): a GitOps developer platform with security built in from the start.1,2

03

Patterns at no extra cost

Customers get access to Krum's portfolio of shared patterns, tools and templates at no additional cost, so each engagement starts from tested building blocks instead of a blank repo.3

04

We teach clients to fish

Continuous enablement is part of the model. Client teams become self-sufficient instead of dependent on us, which keeps Synechron's client relationship clean and long-term.3

05

Community credibility

Krum's founder has co-led the CNCF Platforms Working Group, the community that defines what "platform engineering" means.1

06

Built for regulated work

Compliance, security and disaster recovery are core outcomes in every engagement, along with faster time-to-market and lower cost.3

The fit

Complementary, not overlapping.

Synechron owns the client relationship and the financial-services context. Krum supplies a specialist platform engine behind it. Neither of us has to build what the other already has.

Synechron brings

  • Financial services depth. Capital markets, investment, commercial and retail banking, wealth, asset management, payments, exchanges and insurance.4
  • Client relationships and global delivery across North America, Europe, the Middle East and APAC.5
  • Cloud & DevOps, AI, data and cybersecurity service lines, plus SynechronLabs accelerators for highly regulated environments.4
  • Hyperscaler partnerships with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud.4

Krum brings

  • Specialist platform engineering: new builds, optimization of existing platforms, and ongoing enablement.3
  • SUSE partnership with joint Day-2 support and award-recognized Rancher expertise.1,2
  • Ready-made stacks (BARN, Platform Stacks) that shorten time to a working, secured platform.1,2
  • A hybrid and on-prem option for clients that can't, or won't, put every workload in a single hyperscaler.
Together: Synechron leads the program and the relationship, and Krum delivers the platform core under Synechron's banner or alongside it. Clients get one coherent team instead of two vendors.
Joint plays

Pick a client problem. Here's how we'd solve it.

These are proposed starting points, things we could take to a Synechron client next quarter.

A proposal

The first 90 days.

Small, concrete, and designed to produce a referenceable win.

Weeks 0–2

Pick two accounts

Choose one or two Synechron FS clients with a live driver: VMware renewal, a developer-platform mandate, or an AI program blocked on infrastructure.

Weeks 2–6

Joint discovery

A Synechron lead with a Krum platform architect. Krum brings its stack patterns, and the output is a reference architecture mapped to the client's controls.

Weeks 6–12

Pilot and package

Stand up a working pilot, capture the result, and turn it into a repeatable Synechron × Krum offering for the next ten clients.

Proof, not slides

This page is a small demo of how Krum works.

It runs on Epinio, a Kubernetes developer platform on Krum's cluster. An AI agent pushed it straight from source through an MCP connector: no Dockerfile, no hand-written Kubernetes manifests, no ticket queue.

That's the developer experience we build for clients: secure golden paths that both people and AI agents can use safely.

# agent → Epinio MCP
push_app krum-x-synechron
… uploading source
… staging with Paketo buildpacks
… deploying to Kubernetes
✓ app running
✓ route ready
Next step

Thirty minutes, one whiteboard, two accounts.

Avinash, let's find the first two Synechron clients where a joint team wins and loses nothing. We'll bring the platform architects.