My name is Spyridon Amvrakidis, a 25-year-old Cloud Operations Lead working with secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure for government and large financial enterprises. I focus on cloud security, automation, Kubernetes and hybrid architecture. I also run my own company to educate new engineers on building secure, reliable infrastructure. I believe in cloud-agnostic security and strong teams through education and open collaboration.

My name is Spyridon Amvrakidis, a 25-year-old Cloud Operations Lead working with secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure for government and large financial enterprises. I focus on cloud security, automation, Kubernetes and hybrid architecture. I a... Show more

Domingos Dias é bacharel em Engenharia Informática pela UGS e está a concluir a monografia de Licenciatura em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas.

É certificado internacionalmente pela Camunda como Professional Developer em orquestração e automação de processos.

Iniciou a sua carreira como desenvolvedor Java, migrando para typescript(Angolar ~10), php e frameworks deste, participando no desenvolvimento e implementação de sistemas como SIGHOSP e MEDANGOLA, utilizados em instituições como o Hospital Geral dos Cajueiros, Hospital Josina Machel, Unicargas, ENDE, entre outras clínicas e organizações.

Ao longo da sua trajetória, trabalhou para o Standard Bank Angola, Banco Keve e BCI, estes dois últimos atuando como consultor pela empresa Selenium.

É cofundador da ANDROMEDA, responsável pelo desenvolvimento e licenciamento, junto à AGT e APD, do sistema de faturação, logística e contabilidade MULTIGEST.

Atualmente, exerce funções como consultor e arquiteto de soluções de automação para uma multinacional(INM).

Foi vencedor do primeiro Hackathon do Standard Bank Angola, já colaborou em projetos open source e tornou-se o primeiro angolano a ter um conector aprovado e disponibilizado no marketplace oficial da Camunda (Alemanha).

Domingos Dias é bacharel em Engenharia Informática pela UGS e está a concluir a monografia de Licenciatura em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas. É certificado internacionalmente pela Camunda como Professional Developer em orquestração e automa... Show more

Josh Dunn is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperlinear, an AI-native automation platform for financial services. He brings over 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale trading, data, and compliance systems at institutional hedge funds. Josh’s current focus is on agentic AI and context engineering for regulated environments, where using advanced data architectures is necessary to ensure correctness, auditability, and alignment with operational reality.

Josh Dunn is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperlinear, an AI-native automation platform for financial services. He brings over 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale trading, data, and compliance systems at institutional hedge funds. ... Show more

Visionary CTPO who led teams across Amazon, Yahoo, Oracle and have held leadership roles at Walmart, Indeed, Coupang etc Currently CTPO with Actionable Analytics a TaaS firm leveraging Gen AI, cloud, data to provide exceptional CX to enterprises across the world. Focus on eCom, FinTech, Telco, AdTech, EdTech and HealthTech

Visionary CTPO who led teams across Amazon, Yahoo, Oracle and have held leadership roles at Walmart, Indeed, Coupang etc Currently CTPO with Actionable Analytics a TaaS firm leveraging Gen AI, cloud, data to provide exceptional CX to enterprises acro... Show more

Matthew J Smith has built a professional path centered on investment leadership and operational experience across the energy, power, and data center industries. With nearly twenty years of work, he has developed a practical understanding of how financial strategy connects to real-world performance. His background includes responsibilities in both hedge funds and public companies, allowing him to approach decisions with balance and clarity. Through every stage, he has focused on steady progress and responsible management.

He started his career as an analyst, where he gained valuable experience in studying companies, assets, and market cycles. In these early roles, he learned how to evaluate financial data, forecast potential results, and assess business risks. Those lessons shaped his careful and structured way of thinking about investments. His time in these positions provided him with the tools to interpret economic patterns and enhance his ability to make informed, disciplined decisions in complex environments.

Matthew advanced into senior research and portfolio management roles within established investment firms. His work focused on the industrial and energy sectors, where changing market trends demanded thoughtful analysis. By concentrating on the relationships between cyclical and long-term market forces, he refined an approach that valued consistent research and sound judgment. His contributions supported institutional portfolios managing significant assets, where he maintained an emphasis on careful evaluation, long-term focus, and risk control in rapidly evolving markets.

He carried those principles into his own firm when he founded Deep Basin Capital. As Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, he created a strategy that combined detailed industry analysis with teamwork and structured processes. Matthew led efforts in recruiting, technology development, and investment execution, prioritizing investor trust at every step. Under his guidance, the firm grew and ultimately completed its operations successfully, reflecting his commitment to disciplined leadership and long-term value creation.

He later extended his experience into the public company space, serving as both a board member and Chief Financial Officer for a merchant power and data center operator. In this capacity, he managed financial reporting, operational planning, and asset oversight during a period of organizational challenge. His steady leadership supported financial recovery, strategic development, and a sale that provided strong results for stakeholders. The experience strengthened his understanding of governance and operational responsibility.

Matthew J Smith continues to value community involvement alongside professional work. He founded a food drive that helps families in need and has sustained the initiative over several years with consistent local support. Outside of his career, he enjoys sports, outdoor activities, and creative projects that balance his demanding professional life. His outlook combines financial understanding, operational discipline, and a genuine commitment to steady improvement. He remains focused on making meaningful contributions to both his field and the community.

Matthew J Smith has built a professional path centered on investment leadership and operational experience across the energy, power, and data center industries. With nearly twenty years of work, he has developed a practical understanding of how finan... Show more

Ram Ghadiyaram is a seasoned Data Analytics & AI professional, mentor, and innovator with over 20 years of extensive software engineering experience in Big Data, Analytics, and Fintech. He has led major data initiatives at global financial institutions, consistently delivering transformative solutions that harness the power of large-scale data processing. Ram’s technical acumen is highlighted by his recognition as an Apache Spark , Scala Gold Badge award, reflecting his deep expertise in distributed computing and high-performance analytics. He also holds multiple gold badges on Stack Overflow, underscoring his commitment to technical excellence and community-driven knowledge sharing. Driven by curiosity and a passion for innovation, Ram continues to shape the future of Data engineering and AI in the financial sector and beyond.

Ram Ghadiyaram is a seasoned Data Analytics & AI professional, mentor, and innovator with over 20 years of extensive software engineering experience in Big Data, Analytics, and Fintech. He has led major data initiatives at global financial institutio... Show more

Experto en transformación personal. Consultor estratégico en cultura organizacional. Master Training en Liderazgo, Coach de Vida, certificado por MB CONSULTORES-MEXICO, Coach Profesional Ontológico, Coach Organizacional, y Mentor con certificación internacional por FICEO-Federación Internacional de Consultores y Entrenadores organizacionales.

Administrador Financiero de la Universidad UFPS, Especialista en Gerencia de Mercadeo de la Universidad Autónoma UNAULA.

Experto en transformación personal. Consultor estratégico en cultura organizacional. Master Training en Liderazgo, Coach de Vida, certificado por MB CONSULTORES-MEXICO, Coach Profesional Ontológico, Coach Organizacional, y Mentor con certificación in... Show more

An experienced finance and operations professional with a successful track record at companies such as PWC and FTSE 100 iGaming innovators. An investor and entrepreneur who founded RecruitBlock and specializes in accelerating business growth through human capital. Champion of DEI and seasoned speaker on the importance of people and talent in web3. Through his unique insight and partnership style, Paul has enabled notable startups and scale-ups to grow successfully across Europe.

An experienced finance and operations professional with a successful track record at companies such as PWC and FTSE 100 iGaming innovators. An investor and entrepreneur who founded RecruitBlock and specializes in accelerating business growth through ... Show more

Karthikeyan Subramaniam is a Principal Solution Architect at BMO N.A. with nearly 20 years of experience driving digital transformation, cloud modernization, and Generative AI initiatives in banking and wealth management. Operating in an extended leadership capacity reporting to the CIO, he shapes the Wealth digital roadmap, including cloud migration strategies, evaluation of emerging AI/ML technologies, and build-versus-buy analysis, and serves as Technology Governance Advisor for the Wealth Canada application portfolio.
He architected a governed, cloud-native GenAI solution that automated the identification of high-value trust litigation leads, increasing qualified leads two to three times, raising attorney contact data enrichment from under 20% to around 73%, and reducing processing time from hours or days to under 40 seconds, with an estimated annual incremental revenue opportunity of $12M to $30M+. He also architected VERA, an enterprise Generative AI platform serving use cases such as lead generation, intelligent document data extraction, call-record sentiment analysis, and JobAID assistance, and delivered parallel retrieval-augmented generation AI assistants for Wealth Advisors on AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI, introducing an “AI-to-test-AI” validation approach well received by the enterprise architecture community.
His earlier work includes a $1.5M data aggregation platform designed for approximately 2,000 transactions per second, leading the Wealth Management Group integration following BMO’s acquisition of Bank of the West, the MYCA relationship manager application that replaced a legacy system in roughly four months, and GLIA, a real-time audio, video, and text engagement capability for remote advisor-client interaction.
Karthikeyan holds a Master of Computer Applications from Anna University, Chennai, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He holds 13 AWS certifications, including Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Machine Learning Specialty, along with multiple Google Generative AI and Responsible AI credentials. He is a recipient of the AWS Golden Jacket and the Destination Digital Innovator award (2024).

Karthikeyan Subramaniam is a Principal Solution Architect at BMO N.A. with nearly 20 years of experience driving digital transformation, cloud modernization, and Generative AI initiatives in banking and wealth management. Operating in an extended lea... Show more

Selling a business can bring a large capital gains tax bill, and helping owners plan for it is now the focus of Robin Taliaferro's work. A capital gains and estate tax planning executive with more than five decades of experience advising clients in California, he specializes in the Structured Installment Sale, which lets sellers spread out and defer the tax. Before this, Robin Taliaferro was known for helping senior technology executives diversify out of concentrated company stock holdings while minimizing or deferring capital gains tax.

Robin Taliaferro is CEO of his practice, where he now develops tax strategies for the sale of a business. That work centers on the Structured Installment Sale, where a seller is paid over time rather than in a single lump sum. He also leads tax seminars and meets with clients one on one. Starting in 1992, he built a book of high-net-worth corporate officers, giving them tax strategies that allowed them to diversify their holdings while minimizing or deferring capital gains tax. His ongoing work with clients and their CPAs has kept him informed about tax code changes throughout his career.

The senior leaders Robin has advised come from some of Silicon Valley's most high-profile technology companies. Consider his work in San Jose alone. For the chief operating officer and director of Xilinx, he worked on $5 million of company stock. Adobe Systems' vice president of software imaging and publishing, a corporate officer, engaged him on $20 million in Adobe stock and options. For the executive vice president of programmable flash memories at Cypress Semiconductor, it involved $10 million in restricted stock.

Elsewhere in the region, he advised the CEO and director of Plantronics in Santa Cruz on $7 million in restricted stock. Trident Microsystems' chairman and CEO, in Sunnyvale, relied on him to plan the sale of $7 million in Rule 144 restricted stock and options. The $30 million in Rule 144 restricted stock and options held by the chairman and CEO of Atlantis Computing in Mountain View was the subject of another of his tax planning engagements. He worked with Orbit Semiconductor's chief financial officer and director in Sunnyvale on $1 million in Orbit stock. He also worked with two corporate officers at Zilog in Campbell on $10 million in company stock.

Robin Taliaferro considers his Software.com, Inc., engagement in Santa Barbara one of the high points of his career. Ahead of the company's IPO, in 1999 and 2000, he structured tax strategies for a private sale of $100 million of Software.com stock.

He represented interests on both sides. His clients made up the buying group. They bought their shares privately before the IPO, then held them for six months before selling. Charitable remainder trusts were used on both sides, and Robin Taliaferro structured the ones most of the sellers used to minimize or defer capital gains tax.

Robin's education came first. He earned an MBA from the Babson Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1968, and in that same year he joined the U.S. Army. He served from 1968 to 1971 in Vietnam, holding the rank of infantry first lieutenant.

His career began in 1971, after his military service ended, with investment advice for clients in Santa Barbara, California. Investment management for those Santa Barbara clients occupied the first two decades of his career. He also became a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) along the way, completing the designation in 1987 through Denver, Colorado's College for Financial Planning. That accomplishment demanded the successful completion of six examinations and more than a year of effort. What came next was three decades of experience working with corporate clients and their CPAs.

Robin Taliaferro changed his focus in 1992. He left investment management for Santa Barbara clients behind and took up tax planning with corporate clients in Silicon Valley, a group that included pre-IPO companies. In short, his career has led him from the U.S. Army in Vietnam to handling investment accounts in Santa Barbara, and since 1992 to tax planning with corporate executives at companies including Xilinx, Plantronics, Adobe Systems, and Cypress Semiconductor.

Robin and his wife have been longtime supporters of local historical charitable organizations. For the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, they contributed time and money every year from 2000 to 2010. For the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum, they've done the same since 2024. His wife has served on the board at both of these museums.

A competitive long-distance runner, Robin Taliaferro finished second in the 10K among American men ages 60 to 65 at the 2006 U.S. National Championships in Paso Robles, California.

Robin Taliaferro lives in Solvang, California, and it's from his home there that he now structures tax strategies for business owners selling their companies, with the Structured Installment Sale at the center. His perspective rests on more than 30 years of working with technology executives and their CPAs, combined with the investment background he built over two decades in Santa Barbara before that.

Selling a business can bring a large capital gains tax bill, and helping owners plan for it is now the focus of Robin Taliaferro's work. A capital gains and estate tax planning executive with more than five decades of experience advising clients in C... Show more

Profesional con experiencia en automatizaciones y analítica de datos en el sector financiero en Santander Consumer y BCP, Se especializa en el desarrollo de soluciones empresariales con herramientas Low-code y RPA, logrando reducir tiempos de ejecución en un 70% en implementaciones integrales. Posee certificaciones PL-900 ( PL-900: Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals) y PL-300 ( PL-300: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate).

Profesional con experiencia en automatizaciones y analítica de datos en el sector financiero en Santander Consumer y BCP, Se especializa en el desarrollo de soluciones empresariales con herramientas Low-code y RPA, logrando reducir tiempos de ejecuc... Show more

Krishna Chaitanya Saride is a Senior Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in software development, product innovation, and technical leadership. His work spans payment systems, retail systems, and spatial computing, with a focus on designing and delivering high-performance, scalable distributed platforms.
Krishna helped architect and deliver an enterprise payments gateway capable of handling up to 1 million transactions a minute with only 20 ms of processing overhead. The platform reduced dependence on third-party payment processors. He led the platform's evolution from a modular monolith to a microservices architecture, designing service discovery, a client-side load-balancing library, a health-aware intra-service TCP protocol, and rolling-deployment playbooks that upgrade services without losing in-flight traffic.
He also built a cloud-native buy-now-pay-later repayment processor, redesigning its authentication, authorization, service discovery, health check, and observability stack using Istio and Temporal.io. His other contributions include a distributed configuration management service for instance-level A/B testing, a compliance framework for card network CIT/MIT mandates, and EMV "Chip and Pin" payment integration for retail devices deployed globally.
In his current role, Krishna leads the technical direction of a shared developer platform that engineering teams build their services on. The platform provides security, API management, traffic and integration, and observability as ready-made capabilities. Teams get consistent security and reliability from the platform instead of rebuilding them for each service. He decides which problems the platform solves centrally, defines the standards teams follow, and leads the cross-functional work that delivers these capabilities. He also drives performance, power, and thermal optimization for real-time 3D video telephony on an AR/VR spatial computing platform. That work includes defining performance KPIs, automating energy-regression analysis, and building experiences that adapt to thermal pressure.
Krishna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. In 2025 he was the sole author of four journal articles. They cover high availability and fault tolerance in distributed financial systems, AI and machine learning in payment systems, the ethics of AI-driven financial systems, and AI-driven thermal management in wearable technology. He was a peer reviewer for five international conferences in 2025, including as a Program Committee Member for ICDSA 2025.

Krishna Chaitanya Saride is a Senior Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in software development, product innovation, and technical leadership. His work spans payment systems, retail systems, and spatial computing, with a focus on... Show more

Raghavendranath Kandula is a software engineering leader and researcher with more than a decade of experience building and operating data platforms. His work focuses on financial document extraction, applied AI and production reliability. His research examines consistency checks for LLM-based extraction and silent failures, where a pipeline publishes an incorrect value without raising an alarm.
At Bloomberg L.P., he leads five engineers responsible for an earnings estimates extraction pipeline covering unstructured sell-side research and structured broker feeds, from acquisition through publication on the Bloomberg Terminal. Since joining Bloomberg in 2019, he has progressed through three role levels to Team Leader.
He initiated and leads the automated extraction of analyst ratings and price targets using large language models, the first production use of LLMs within his engineering organization. His responsibilities include technical architecture, post-processing validation, engineering safeguards for model promotion and drift detection, and phased rollout.
He also leads the migration of approximately 120 broker feeds, proposing shared publishing and directing a separate configuration-based redesign to simplify onboarding. His observability initiative supports a pipeline processing approximately 30,000 messages daily, with shared capabilities, including a circuit breaker, structured logging, alerting and synthetic health checks, adopted across all components owned by the team. He personally designed and built an analytics application that uses human corrections to identify extraction failure patterns. Earlier contributions include human-review selection criteria, legacy migration planning and onboarding automation that increased throughput from approximately five to 1,200 companies daily.
Previously, he built cloud communications components at Vail Systems and responded to production outages at Oracle. As a graduate research assistant in the University of Iowa’s Haim Laboratory, he applied computational and statistical methods to biological sequence data and co-authored a 2020 publication in mBio.
He holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He also completed a postgraduate program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning through the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He has taught business-unit courses at Bloomberg and mentors engineers.

Raghavendranath Kandula is a software engineering leader and researcher with more than a decade of experience building and operating data platforms. His work focuses on financial document extraction, applied AI and production reliability. His researc... Show more

I’m a finance professional focused on AI strategy, banking operations, and business transformation.

My current work centers on helping a community bank with AI in a practical, responsible, and business-focused way.

My background is nontraditional.

Before banking, I spent several years as an artist, entrepreneur, and content strategist. That experience taught me how to communicate, build attention, sell ideas, understand people, and make complex ideas easier to grasp.

I entered banking as a teller, moved into a universal banker role, and eventually transitioned into AI strategy after being recruited into a role focused on the future of technology in financial services.

I’m a finance professional focused on AI strategy, banking operations, and business transformation. My current work centers on helping a community bank with AI in a practical, responsible, and business-focused way. My background is nontradition... Show more

Parag Chaudhari is a Staff Software Engineer at Intuit, where he is a technical lead on the QuickBooks Sales & Payments Platform used by roughly 2.5 million businesses to invoice and collect payment. He has worked in financial technology for more than fifteen years, including six at PayPal, where he led the migration of billion-request wallet services, Chase Pay onboarding, network tokenization and the Stand-in resilience project. At Intuit he led the enterprise-scale performance initiative that cut latency on QuickBooks' most-used pages by more than 60 percent, architected payments growth initiatives worth over $19 million in annual revenue, and expanded Deposits on Estimates to all QuickBooks customers. He is an early practitioner of agentic engineering in fintech, having designed the autonomous release, configuration-cleanup and multi-repository change agents his division now ships with. He is a reviewer for the NeurIPS 2026 Agents in the Wild workshop [and a Senior Member of the IEEE].

Parag Chaudhari is a Staff Software Engineer at Intuit, where he is a technical lead on the QuickBooks Sales & Payments Platform used by roughly 2.5 million businesses to invoice and collect payment. He has worked in financial technology for more tha... Show more

João Paulo é Assessor no Banco do Brasil, com 25 anos de experiência e atuação estratégica na Diretoria de Controles Internos.
Especialista em governança e compliance, dedica-se há oito anos à transformação de processos críticos, conduzindo iniciativas que unem rigor regulatório, inovação e inteligência de dados.
Com certificações em Business Intelligence, Analytics e Inteligência Artificial, desenvolve soluções avançadas para otimizar processos e apoiar decisões estratégicas.
Fora do ambiente corporativo, é um aprendiz permanente de idiomas e um viajante apaixonado por novas culturas.

João Paulo é Assessor no Banco do Brasil, com 25 anos de experiência e atuação estratégica na Diretoria de Controles Internos. Especialista em governança e compliance, dedica-se há oito anos à transformação de processos críticos, conduzindo iniciati... Show more

I work at the intersection of enterprise architecture, business strategy, data, and artificial intelligence, helping organizations translate complex business needs into scalable technology solutions.

My experience spans business architecture, enterprise data platforms, cloud modernization, requirements strategy, and AI enablement in highly regulated environments. I specialize in connecting business objectives with technical execution, establishing clear requirements, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and guiding cross-functional teams through complex transformation initiatives.

Much of my recent work focuses on modernizing financial technology platforms, defining enterprise data models, and enabling AI-driven business processes. I collaborate with business leaders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to shape solution requirements, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, prioritize capabilities, and establish a shared understanding of delivery outcomes.

I bring a practical approach to Agile delivery, balancing evolving business priorities with architectural integrity, technical dependencies, and release readiness. My focus extends beyond defining a solution to ensuring teams understand what needs to be delivered, why it matters, how success will be measured, and what must be validated before implementation.

I believe successful technology transformation depends on strong requirements, thoughtful architecture, effective stakeholder facilitation, and the human judgment needed to turn promising technology into reliable business outcomes.

I work at the intersection of enterprise architecture, business strategy, data, and artificial intelligence, helping organizations translate complex business needs into scalable technology solutions. My experience spans business architecture, ente... Show more

Elit Cenk Alp is a Software Architect and technology professional with 15+ years of experience in enterprise software, financial technology, public-sector platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation.

His experience spans software architecture, hands-on engineering, and technical leadership across complex enterprise projects. His current focus is enterprise AI, particularly conversational systems combining intent and entity recognition, multi-model orchestration, security controls, API integration, and dynamic user interfaces.

He is passionate about transforming conversational AI from response-generating chatbots into systems that securely execute real-world services and transactions.

Cenk also has an academic background in machine learning and computer vision, with published research on human activity recognition using HMM and LSTM models. He mentors early-career software developers through collaborative engineering programs.

Elit Cenk Alp is a Software Architect and technology professional with 15+ years of experience in enterprise software, financial technology, public-sector platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation. His experience spans software... Show more

Kedarnath Goud Kothinti is an Engineering Leader with more than 15 years of experience building secure, scalable technology solutions across fraud prevention, identity verification, authentication, payments, and digital banking. He has led the design and delivery of enterprise platforms focused on real-time fraud detection, open banking, customer identity verification, multi-factor authentication, and personalization, with deep domain expertise in financial services and risk analytics.
Across roles at AvidXchange, Bank of America engagements, Lowe’s, and Infosys, Kedarnath has consistently driven end-to-end execution of complex engineering programs, from requirements analysis and architecture design to development, testing, deployment, and production support. He is known for leading cross-functional and distributed teams, mentoring engineers, and aligning technical solutions with business goals to deliver high-quality, resilient systems.
His technical background spans Java, Python, SQL, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms, and machine learning techniques including classification, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. With advanced academic training in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Kedarnath brings a strong combination of engineering leadership, domain knowledge, and data-driven problem solving to next-generation financial security and digital transformation initiatives.

Kedarnath Goud Kothinti is an Engineering Leader with more than 15 years of experience building secure, scalable technology solutions across fraud prevention, identity verification, authentication, payments, and digital banking. He has led the design... Show more

I’m a Software Engineer and Consultant focused on building scalable, maintainable backend systems with technologies like Kotlin, Axon, Event Sourcing, and CQRS.
My work also includes experience with React.js and Vue, enabling me to design solutions that connect backend logic with clear, effective user interfaces.

I’ve gained experience in industries such as energy and financial services, which has given me a solid understanding of domain-driven, business-oriented system design.

CQRS and Event Sourcing are particular areas of interest for me — I see them as powerful approaches to achieving clarity, traceability, and long-term stability in complex systems.

I value collaboration, knowledge sharing, and working in flexible environments that support thoughtful, well-crafted software.

I’m a Software Engineer and Consultant focused on building scalable, maintainable backend systems with technologies like Kotlin, Axon, Event Sourcing, and CQRS. My work also includes experience with React.js and Vue, enabling me to design solutions ... Show more

Desi Ramananda Kishore Katuri is an accomplished Application Programmer and Technical Lead with over 18 years of experience delivering large-scale ERP transformation projects across Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) using PeopleSoft. He currently serves as Senior Application Programmer IV at the University of California, Berkeley, within the Berkeley Financial Systems team, where he spearheads the implementation of the Travel & Expenses module and drives enhancements to streamline operations while ensuring compliance with university policy.
Prior to UC Berkeley, Desi spent over a decade at Infosys Ltd., progressing from Software Engineer to Technology Lead, and led major PeopleSoft engagements for clients including Charles Schwab, Dick's Sporting Goods, CSX, Lowe's, Delhaize, Limited Brands, LexisNexis, and Nationwide. His expertise spans Procure to Pay, Acquire to Retire, and Record to Report business processes, along with ERP architecture, data conversion, systems integration, and process automation.
Desi holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering from JNT University, India, and has furthered his skills with certifications in Python programming and machine learning from UC Berkeley Extension, along with PeopleSoft Test Framework specialization.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE and IAEME, and a Full Member of Sigma Xi. Desi actively contributes to the technical community as a judge and peer reviewer for several hackathons and academic conferences and has received multiple industry awards recognizing his leadership and innovation in ERP-driven financial services.

Desi Ramananda Kishore Katuri is an accomplished Application Programmer and Technical Lead with over 18 years of experience delivering large-scale ERP transformation projects across Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) using PeopleSoft. He curr... Show more

Sowmith Javvaji is a Lead AI Engineer at Transient AI in New York, where he designs multi-agent AI systems and AI-driven analytics for wealth management and financial services. He leads the AI capabilities of ClarityRIA, an AI-powered RIA intelligence platform covering 21,000+ registered investment advisers, and has built a declarative multi-agent framework, AI portfolio analysis, and fund research and recommendation systems using LangGraph, LangChain, MCP and RAG.

With 6+ years of experience, including as a Senior Software Engineer in infrastructure at Target Corporation, Sowmith specializes in building trustworthy, observable and secure AI for regulated industries. He is a published IEEE author, holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Riverside, and is an AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer and Developer.

Sowmith Javvaji is a Lead AI Engineer at Transient AI in New York, where he designs multi-agent AI systems and AI-driven analytics for wealth management and financial services. He leads the AI capabilities of ClarityRIA, an AI-powered RIA intelligenc... Show more

Nancy Amandi is a data engineer at a FinTech company. She began her career as a data analyst. She quickly made a name for herself in the Nigerian data industry through her insightful articles and impressive performances in hackathons, where she often emerged as a winner.

Her passion for community involvement led her to actively participate in various data communities, including the Data Engineering Community, Young Data Professionals, and Women in Data Africa. In these groups, she not only assisted fellow professionals with technical challenges but also helped stimulate some important discussions by asking insightful questions.

Her significant contributions were recognized when she received the Fast Rising Star award from the Young Data Professionals Community. Outside of work, Nancy enjoys watching light horror and thriller K-dramas, Sci-Fi movies, and data-related books.

Nancy Amandi is a data engineer at a FinTech company. She began her career as a data analyst. She quickly made a name for herself in the Nigerian data industry through her insightful articles and impressive performances in hackathons, where she often... Show more

Garang Mayom Malek is Chief Executive Officer of CapitalPay International and a director of two United Kingdom software and payments companies. His work and public writing focus on institutional payments, reconciliation, trade systems and the records that connect a transaction to the service it enables. He publishes essays, interviews and practical explainers at garangmalek.com.

Garang Mayom Malek is Chief Executive Officer of CapitalPay International and a director of two United Kingdom software and payments companies. His work and public writing focus on institutional payments, reconciliation, trade systems and the records... Show more

Naresh Goolla is a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of industry experience, bringing a rare combination of technical depth and strategic leadership. He has spent a decade each as a Pega Technical Lead and an IBM Mainframe Solution Architect, designing and delivering enterprise-level solutions across sectors including finance, healthcare, and insurance. Naresh’s expertise spans business process automation, case management, system integrations, data reporting, and enterprise security, with a strong track record of modernizing legacy systems and implementing AI-driven functionalities to meet evolving business needs.
Throughout his career, Naresh has led high-impact projects for clients such as Truist Bank, AIG, and Express Scripts. At IMR Soft LLC, he has been instrumental in architecting advanced Pega-based workflows, integrating external systems via REST/SOAP APIs, and implementing real-time reporting and robust security measures. Notably, he played a critical role in the merger of BB&T and SunTrust banks by leading the redesign of customer and legal forms to ensure seamless compliance and enhanced user experience. His work has consistently improved operational efficiency, reduced processing times, and enhanced decision-making capabilities through automation and analytics.
Naresh began his career developing mainframe-based systems for organizations including HSBC, Citi, and American Express, where he honed his skills in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and other core technologies. His breadth of experience in both legacy and modern platforms allows him to bridge traditional infrastructure with contemporary digital transformation strategies. He is a certified Pega Senior System Architect, Pega Decisioning Consultant, and holds Microsoft certifications in Azure AI Engineering and Fundamentals. A graduate of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, Naresh is recognized for his collaborative approach, problem-solving acumen, and commitment to delivering scalable, secure, and innovative technology solutions.

Naresh Goolla is a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of industry experience, bringing a rare combination of technical depth and strategic leadership. He has spent a decade each as a Pega Technical Lead and an IBM Mainframe Solution Architec... Show more

Umesh Rawat is a senior technology leader with 22+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise systems across financial technology, data integration, workflow orchestration, and operational platforms.

His work focuses on enterprise architecture, intelligent automation, and modern data systems, with particular interest in applying AI responsibly within complex, high-stakes environments.

As a speaker, Umesh shares practical insights on AI, enterprise systems, data platforms, architecture, and the future of intelligent operations.

Umesh Rawat is a senior technology leader with 22+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise systems across financial technology, data integration, workflow orchestration, and operational platforms. His work focuses on enterprise archite... Show more

Jorge Rojas es auditor interno en el sector financiero. Lidera auditorías internas para Paraguay y Chile en un banco internacional. Es miembro de la comisión directiva de ISACA Capitulo Asunción. Tiene las certificaciones CISA, AAIA, AMLCA y Certified in Cybersecurity (ISC²) . Es docente en USIL e investiga la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial en la auditoría interna. Es autor del libro Auditoría Interna en la Era de la Inteligencia Artificial. Cursa el Doctorado en Contabilidad y Auditoría en la UNAE, con una tesis sobre cómo la corrección y la explicabilidad de las recomendaciones de IA afectan el juicio profesional de los auditores internos.

Jorge Rojas es auditor interno en el sector financiero. Lidera auditorías internas para Paraguay y Chile en un banco internacional. Es miembro de la comisión directiva de ISACA Capitulo Asunción. Tiene las certificaciones CISA, AAIA, AMLCA y Certifie... Show more

Senior Software Engineer as Mainframe Quality Assurance Engineer/Developer having over 9 years of working experience in Mainframe Technology. Under this technology, have gained proficiency in various aspects like COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IBM IMS, IBM DB2, Mainframe Automation using REXX/CLIST. I am really passionate about the Mainframe technology as I strongly believe that it forms the base of all the major finance & banking industry and are heavily reliant on it. Just like a tree is as strong as its roots are, similarly in B&F roots are strong owing to Mainframe technology!!! I have had the opportunity to work for different banking giant customers, thus enriching my experience. I am also an enthusiast of the latest AI technologies like GenAI, Prompt Engineering, ML, NLP amongst many. With the mainframe modernization all around us now, combined with the AI capabilities I believe it will be the next big thing in near future! Basically, the best of both the worlds - Mainframe & AI!!!

Senior Software Engineer as Mainframe Quality Assurance Engineer/Developer having over 9 years of working experience in Mainframe Technology. Under this technology, have gained proficiency in various aspects like COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IBM IMS, IBM ... Show more

I lead cloud and AI projects across Central America and the Caribbean, helping organizations in financial services, logistics, and retail turn business challenges into secure, scalable architectures on AWS. My work spans the full journey — from understanding business requirements to designing infrastructure, security, and AI governance strategies that actually make it to production.

I've spoken at Banking Summit Panama 2025, AgentCon Panama, AWS Community Day Panama across multiple editions, and regional technology events in Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad & Tobago — always focused on how security, governance, and data strategy are the foundation that makes AI solutions production-ready, not just demo-ready.

Building AI agents for regulated industries taught me that the hard part isn't making them smart — it's making them safe. That's the perspective I bring to this talk.

I lead cloud and AI projects across Central America and the Caribbean, helping organizations in financial services, logistics, and retail turn business challenges into secure, scalable architectures on AWS. My work spans the full journey — from under... Show more

Tarangkumar Malani is a seasoned software engineering professional with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade applications across financial services, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce domains. He currently serves as Vice President and Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he leads the design, development, modernisation, and ongoing support of high-impact internal enterprise platforms focused on knowledge discovery, workflow automation, and platform modernisation.
In his current role, Tarangkumar is responsible for building full-stack solutions using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, REST APIs, and SQL. He has played a key role in implementing artificial intelligence-enabled search and conversational capabilities by integrating governed enterprise data sources and modern data-platform patterns to improve information discovery and decision support. He also drives reliability and performance improvements through site reliability engineering practices, including observability enhancements, monitoring, incident response, and system optimization across both on-premises and cloud-connected environments.
Before JPMorgan Chase, Tarangkumar held engineering leadership roles at Mphasis, where he led the development of microservices-based financial platforms and contributed to architecture, performance optimization, and production stability in Agile environments. He also worked at The Fidelis Group, delivering full software development lifecycle support for financial applications, and at eClinicalWorks, where he contributed to the development and modernization of a large cloud-based healthcare platform. Earlier in his career, he developed telecom billing and broadband solutions at Sterlite Technologies. He built Java-based enterprise applications at SoftVan, gaining strong foundational experience in full-stack development and system integration.
Throughout his career, Tarangkumar has demonstrated expertise in full-stack development, microservices architecture, system integration, workflow automation, observability, and platform modernisation. His technical skill set spans Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript, Spring frameworks, React and Angular, relational and NoSQL databases, and a wide range of DevOps and reliability engineering tools. He is experienced in driving secure software development practices, improving system scalability and performance, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver resilient, high-quality enterprise solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from India.

Tarangkumar Malani is a seasoned software engineering professional with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade applications across financial services, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce domains. He current... Show more