Today most technology companies in the country - MNCs or otherwise scoop out their manpower from a handful of so called top colleges and technology universities. This leads to a certain guarantee for students of these colleges to have more than one offer letter by the end of the last semester of their courses provided they perform satisfactorily well. On the other side, the mushrooming of colleges government aided and private - enables students, especially those located in the Tier II and Tier III cities, to study in isntitutes closer to their horne and take up the same courses as their urban counterparts. However, there is a problem for most big companies to reach out to smaller cities and hire students from institutes therein. To solve this problem, Professional Aptitude Council used technology.

The projcet called Bright Sparks is basically an online platform and a free program for campuses and students. Students register and subscribe to Bright Sparks where they can view educational content, take practice tests and take PAC's qualifying exams online to highlight their skills and ability. Each student who takes up an online test is benchmarked globally on PAC's international network. And depending on the specific requirements of the recruitment companies, candidate's performance is graded. Some companies might have domain-specific cutoff rankings in certain competencies/lan-guages/areas that can be evaluated by PAC. Blanketing over 2000 institutions all across the country, PAC aims to place students from Tier II and III cities on the same global platform as the elite handful.

The Bright Sparks software is deployed on cloud based hosting platform in the US. It is implemented on a Fractional Cluster using N ginx load balanced server cluster with a dedicated MySQL database server with mater/replica redundancy. Ruby on Rails web framework, Mongrel application server, MySQL database system, Nginx HTTP server and load balancer, and 118n International translation processing have been used.