Publifund Platform

Project context

Publifund was an internal platform developed by Financial Communication Consult, a company specialized in financial information distribution for investment funds.

The platform aggregated data related to investment funds from multiple external sources and generated standardized regulatory documents known as KIID, for Key Investor Information Documents.

These documents are required by European financial regulations and must follow strict formatting and content rules.

The generated information and documents were distributed to financial information providers and media platforms such as Bloomberg and other financial data distributors.

The system therefore served as a data aggregation, document generation and distribution platform for the investment fund industry.

Project objectives

• Collect data related to investment funds from external sources
• Process and normalize the collected data
• Generate regulatory KIID documents in PDF format
• Archive generated documents
• Provide structured data and documents to financial media platforms
• Offer internal tools to search and manage investment fund data

System overview

The platform operated roughly as a data processing pipeline.

My role

I worked as a backend developer within a small development team.

• Development and maintenance of KIID document generators
• Implementation and updates of PDF generation logic
• Maintenance of complex listing pages displaying financial data
• Participation in parsing logic for data collected by automated bots
• Maintenance and evolution of internal tools, including a custom ticketing system
• Working within an existing monolithic PHP codebase

Team structure

The in-house technical team was composed of approximately seven people.

I joined the team as one of the junior developers.

Development priorities and planning were mainly coordinated by the lead developer together with company management.

• Lead developer
• Senior developer
• Backend developer
• Full-stack developer
• Two frontend developers
• System administrator

Technologies used

Data processing

The system relied on automated bots responsible for collecting information about investment funds from external sources.

These bots periodically executed tasks corresponding to a workflow of collection, parsing, normalization and storage in MySQL.

Generated KIID documents were then created from this structured data.

Document generation system

KIID documents followed strict regulatory structures defined by financial authorities.

The system implemented a flexible generation approach, with a default KIID generator for most funds and custom generators for specific funds when needed.

Generation logic was implemented in PHP using PDFLib.

Once generated, documents were archived in MongoDB in order to keep historical versions, allow fast retrieval and serve documents to external clients and internal users.

Data volume

The document archive stored in MongoDB reached several hundreds of gigabytes of data, reflecting the large number of generated documents and historical versions maintained by the system.

Technical challenges

Outcomes / impact

The Publifund platform served as a central system for aggregating investment fund data, generating regulatory KIID documents and distributing structured financial information to external media platforms.

The system handled large volumes of generated documents and maintained a significant document archive.