Finance & Banking

Experienced individuals involved in financial services, including banking, investment, insurance, and real estate

Mykhailo Vashchuk

Mykhailo Vashchuk

Mykhailo Vashchuk is a co-founder, COO, and certified Power Platform and Dynamics 365 architect with 13+ years in software engineering and 9+ years building enterprise solutions on Dynamics 365 and Azure.

He specializes in large-scale integration architecture across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Functions, Dataverse, and SQL Server - focusing on systems where scalability, reliability, and operational performance are critical.

His work centers around bridging low-code platforms with custom cloud engineering to build systems that can handle real production workloads, complex synchronization logic, and high-volume data processing.

He focuses on practical architecture decisions, real integration trade-offs, and what it actually takes to run enterprise systems beyond the "happy path."

Mykhailo Vashchuk is a co-founder, COO, and certified Power Platform and Dynamics 365 architect with 13+ years in software engineering and 9+ years building enterprise solutions on Dynamics 365 and Azure. He specializes in large-scale integration ... Show more

Hector Martinez

Hector Martinez

Héctor Martínez, apasionado Solutions Architect con tres certificaciones, es instructor del programa AWS Re/Start y Co-Líder del User Group de AWS en Monterrey. En Escala24x7, lidera el Producto de Servicios Administrados para el Sector Financiero Cloud EMx y apoya el programa Well Architected Review. Además de su éxito profesional, Héctor es un dedicado esposo y padre de dos princesas, equilibrando su pasión por la tecnología con su amor por la familia.

Héctor Martínez, apasionado Solutions Architect con tres certificaciones, es instructor del programa AWS Re/Start y Co-Líder del User Group de AWS en Monterrey. En Escala24x7, lidera el Producto de Servicios Administrados para el Sector Financiero Cl... Show more

Aysajan Eziz

Aysajan Eziz

Aysajan Eziz is a solo founder building Northset and an Assistant Professor of Management Science at Ivey Business School in Canada. His work spans agentic systems, crypto infrastructure, blockchain economics, and applied analytics. At Ivey, he teaches graduate analytics with Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud platforms, and researches blockchain economics and ML/AI-enabled decision systems. Through Northset, he is building an Arbitrum/USDC settlement protocol for objectively verifiable delegated work, where payment is gated by zero-knowledge proof verification rather than model confidence. He also maintains public file-first agent workflow repos — `plan-orchestrator`, `staged-workflow-runner`, and `autonomous-agentic-research-swarm` — that replace chat-only coordination with durable artifacts, deterministic gates, and reviewable state.

Aysajan Eziz is a solo founder building Northset and an Assistant Professor of Management Science at Ivey Business School in Canada. His work spans agentic systems, crypto infrastructure, blockchain economics, and applied analytics. At Ivey, he teach... Show more

Graeme Foster

Graeme Foster

Graeme is a AI Apps Global Black Belt working for Microsoft, helping teams to innovate with AI on Azure.

His IT passion was first stirred with a 1Kb ZX81 in 1983. He’s now had almost 30 years of commercial IT experience as an Engineer, Architect and CTO. He's well versed in .NET, JavaScript, Java, and VB3, and is learning to love Python. He built LISP neural networks before the AI Winter of the 90s.

In his spare time, he hangs out with his kids, plays guitar, and builds iOS apps.

Graeme is a AI Apps Global Black Belt working for Microsoft, helping teams to innovate with AI on Azure. His IT passion was first stirred with a 1Kb ZX81 in 1983. He’s now had almost 30 years of commercial IT experience as an Engineer, Architect ... Show more

Natalia Salas

Natalia Salas

Hi! I'm Natalia Salas, a Technology Leader & Senior Financial consultant, Microsoft MVP, and passionate advocate for inclusive, intelligent BizzApps. With over a decade of experience implementing and optimizing MsDyn365FnO, I bring deep expertise in financial processes, global regulatory compliance, and solution design across multiple industries and geographies.
But I’m not just about debits and credits. I’m also a curious soul who loves exploring everything that intersects with Finance in the Microsoft family, from AI Agents and Copilot to Power Platform and beyond. If it helps automate, clarify, or empower, I want to learn it, use it, and teach it.
Community is at the heart of my work. I regularly share functional insights on my blog, mentor newcomers, and co-founded Futuro 365 and HOLA FnO, initiatives focused on helping diverse professionals begin their journey in the world of business apps.
I’ve spoken at global conferences, led technical sessions, and love turning complex processes into practical, human-centered stories.
I’m here to make Finance feel less scary, more empowering... and maybe even a little fun! ✨

Hi! I'm Natalia Salas, a Technology Leader & Senior Financial consultant, Microsoft MVP, and passionate advocate for inclusive, intelligent BizzApps. With over a decade of experience implementing and optimizing MsDyn365FnO, I bring deep expertise in ... Show more

Thomas Ljungberg Kristensen

Thomas Ljungberg Kristensen

Thomas is an independent security advisor at WelcomeSecurity and has been working in the intersection of security, development, and operations for more than 15+ years. Thomas has worked for Systematic Software Engineering, Danske Bank, Kamstrup, FortConsult, Norlys, Amazon Web Services etc. and is currently running his own company.

Thomas teaches it-security for developers for among others EADania and IDA Learning. He is co-chapter lead for OWASP Aarhus and was voted OWASP WASPY (Web Application Security Person of the Year) for 2022 in the “Chapter Person of the Year” category.

Thomas is an independent security advisor at WelcomeSecurity and has been working in the intersection of security, development, and operations for more than 15+ years. Thomas has worked for Systematic Software Engineering, Danske Bank, Kamstrup, Fort... Show more

Dryshtee Woozir-Manilall

Dryshtee Woozir-Manilall

crafting sustainable, user-centered digital experiences

crafting sustainable, user-centered digital experiences Show more

Aracely Torres

Aracely Torres

Soy Ingeniera de Sistemas, con Maestría en Finanzas Avanzadas en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua. Former MVP en la categoría Power Platform, Microsoft Certified Trainer desde el año 2020, y Microsoft Office Specialist Master y Microsoft Specialist Associate.

Actualmente trabajo como Consultora y Formadora en Inteligencia de Negocios, con experiencia laboral de más de 15 años en la implementación de procesos de automatización en el sector bancario nicaragüense, planificación de recursos para instituciones bancarias estatales y catedrática a nivel de cursos de especialización, posgrados y maestrías relacionadas al uso e implementación de estrategias y herramientas de Business Intelligence a nivel empresarial.

Soy Ingeniera de Sistemas, con Maestría en Finanzas Avanzadas en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua. Former MVP en la categoría Power Platform, Microsoft Certified Trainer desde el año 2020, y Microsoft Office Specialist Master y Microsoft... Show more

Jeff Foresman

Jeff Foresman

Jeff Foresman is an experienced professional with 30 years of experience in assisting organizations in building successful security programs and responding to cyberattacks. He currently serves as the Vice President of Security at Resultant. Prior to this, he held key leadership positions with Rapid7, Optiv, Verizon Business, and the PCI Security Standards Council. Jeff is also the founder of Pondurance, a startup security consulting and managed services business. He has a vast experience in developing risk management programs and building security operations centers for major corporations, retailers, hospitals, and financial services organizations.

Jeff Foresman is an experienced professional with 30 years of experience in assisting organizations in building successful security programs and responding to cyberattacks. He currently serves as the Vice President of Security at Resultant. Prior to ... Show more

Swapneswar Sundar Ray

Swapneswar Sundar Ray

Swapneswar Sundar Ray is an enterprise AI and distributed systems engineering leader with over 15 years of experience designing large-scale platforms across banking, payments, retail, payroll, and insurance domains. He currently serves as Assistant Vice President – AI Systems Engineering at U.S. Bank, where he works on scalable AI-assisted enterprise systems, API ecosystems, and platform reliability initiatives.
His work focuses on governance-centric AI architectures, agentic sandbox environments, API virtualization, synthetic data generation, and hybrid code-first AI orchestration models for enterprise production systems. Over the years, he has contributed to enterprise integration platforms and API ecosystems used by large organizations and partner networks.
Swapneswar actively writes about the operational realities of deploying AI systems in production, particularly the gap between successful AI demos and long-term enterprise reliability. His recent work explores deterministic governance, observability, and bounded AI assistance for production-grade distributed systems.
He also contributes to the broader engineering community through technical publications, architecture discussions, mentoring, and industry judging initiatives focused on enterprise AI adoption and scalable software engineering practices.

Swapneswar Sundar Ray is an enterprise AI and distributed systems engineering leader with over 15 years of experience designing large-scale platforms across banking, payments, retail, payroll, and insurance domains. He currently serves as Assistant V... Show more

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