##  [Alvin Cho & Sovdeep Das (Fiserv): Success Metrics when Launching Your First Developer Portal](/event/apidays-new-york-2023/alvin-cho-sovdeep-das) 

 This talk was presented at **APIDays New York 2023, Developer Success & Developer Portals track** on 17 May. We are glad to present the video recording and the talk summary.

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  ### [ALVIN CHO](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvincho/ "Link to Alvin's LinkedIn profile")

*VP of Product and Engineering at* [Fiserv](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiserv/ "Link to Fiserv's LinkedIn profile")



 

 

### [SOVDEEP DAS](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sovdeep-das-b45157a2/ "Link to Sovdeep's LinkedIn Profile")

*Sr. Director of Product Management* at [Fiserv](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiserv/ "Link to Fiserv's LinkedIn profile")



 

 

 

 

  ## Alvin & Sovdeep's [presentation](https://youtu.be/ko_mlQsvRGg?feature=shared "Link to Alvin and Sovdeep's presentation") (video recording)





 

### Fiserv’s Developer Studio

Fiserv identified the pain points of their customers and offered solutions to remedy their problems.

- **Unified and consistent developer experience** to overcome a lack of coherence
- **Easy discovery** to harmonize information architecture
- **Self-service integration** to provide a smooth API integration process

The team also implemented **automation and governance**, as well as **self-service content and workflow management** to serve their product team better.

### Success criteria

In 2021, Alvin and his team set out to radically transform developer experience to enable developers to learn, play, build, deploy, monetize, monitor, bill, and communicate with Fiserv products. The team also defined three main goals:

- **Build the best developer portal experience** in the world
- Provide product teams with **seamless onboarding**
- Become the **go-to place for building fintech apps**

With these goals in mind, the team built a **Developer Studio** to accommodate their needs and allow for API experimentation. They fine tuned the platform by conducting user interviews and gathering feedback.

### Banking Hub

Banking Hub is part of the Developer Studio ecosystem, and its goal is to provide a **shared test environment** in which financial institutions and other businesses can start working with Fiserv’s core banking APIs.

### The success metrics of Banking Hub:

- **Documentation:** popular pages, user engagement time, user behavior
- **APIs:** popular APIs and cores/domains
- **Workspaces:** number of API calls, free/paid workspaces
- **General:** traffic, search

As the ultimate success metric, Fiserv’s Developer Studio has also earned **multiple awards** for its **innovative solutions and world class developer experience**.

### Best practices for setting success criteria

- Listen to your **instincts**
- Set your **North Star** and waypoints
- Focus on solving the **core problem**
- **Build, test, and iterate**
- **Show results** quickly



 

 

 

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