Written by Elizabeth Reilly Valon began as a mortgage servicing company with a mission to modernize an industry that’s still largely running on legacy systems and manual processes. As we’ve grown, our vision has expanded beyond just operating our own servicing business to building a comprehensive platform that any mortgage

By Amy Hennig, Director of Product I’ve spent my career building products in highly regulated, high-stakes industries, but nothing quite compares to mortgage servicing. It’s one of the largest markets in the country, touching over $14 trillion in outstanding loans. And yet, the systems that power it are outdated, opaque,

Written by Hassan Almas Challenges One of the biggest challenges we face at Valon is modeling mortgages and all the mortgage servicing activities that occur. Today, we have over 50 defined activities, spanning from collecting loan payments to paying taxes through an escrow disbursement. Let’s lay out some of the

Written by Hariharan Chidambaram Hi! I’m Hari, the first software engineering intern at Valon—where we’re modernizing mortgage servicing, a critical part of America’s infrastructure, by building an open access software ecosystem that enhances the homeowner experience. I spent the summer working with the Escrow team, building infrastructure to generate virtual

Today, we’re focusing on one of the newly implemented cornerstones of our infrastructure—a “Sales Lead Pipeline” for our Lending business—and detailing how it came to fruition.

I’m Hassan, a Staff Engineer on our Banking team. In my four years at Valon, I first worked across a variety of teams that deal with money, and then founded the Banking team to provide platform support to solve common problems faced by all of our “money teams.”

With so many engineers writing code every day, it’s also important we put the power in their hands to understand our dependency graph, which dependencies are valid or invalid, how to eliminate invalid dependencies, and why this work is so important.