Program Commmittee

I am a seasoned professional with 16 years of experience designing and building scalable solutions for Investment banks, healthcare, Automation, and Automobile industries.

Working as tech lead on a low-latency electronic trading system.

Elspeth Minty is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets. She has worked in the financial industry for more than two decades. Her experience covers everything from developing core Java/C++ libraries to helping teams adopt cloud technologies. She has worked in a number of locations, including London, Shanghai and Montreal where she is now based. In her current role in RBC Capital Markets, Elspeth is helping to improve code re-use and consistent application design. Elspeth is also involved in open source and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee at FINOS, part of the Linux Foundation. Elspeth has spoken at a number of technology conferences including Spring One, QCon and InnerSource Commons.

Elspeth has a BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Parallel Computer Systems from the University of West of England and a PhD in Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Edinburgh.

Peter Smulovics joined Morgan Stanley after more than a decade at Microsoft, where he participated in creating .NET, C# and Azure, enhancing Visual Studio, SQL Server, Dynamics, HoloLens and more – being a seasoned expert of Microsoft technologies, he is leading now Windows and .NET Development Practices in the Software Development Experience organization. He splits his focus between server side (opinionated abstraction platforms) and client side (hybrid open source desktop how for .NET/Web UI) development, but also focuses on .NET Build tooling, Framework maintenance and more.

He is a publicist for IDG and The Architecture Journal, author and co-author of several books and a returning presenter on TechEx, DevDays, TechReady, Agile DevCon, TechNet, Meta, EY, VRARA, FINRA and many other conferences. He is a founding member of AgileAlliance, Architecture Forum, Architect Academy and .NET Forum, tech lead on several OSS projects like Hibernate, Velocity and several other open-source projects. HE is Microsoft, Ariba, JBoss and SiteCore certified and trainer on several technologies. Peter has also made a name for himself across the industry, being named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a finance industry FINOS Ambassador at The Linux Foundation. At FINOS he also co-chairs two special interest groups, Open Source Readiness and Emerging Technologies (involved with Quantum Technology, Spatial Computing, Space Tech, 4D printing and more), and is a vice-chair for the Technical Oversight Committee.

Working in IT since 1995, Peter has project experience in different fields (FMCG, public, energy, telecom, pharma, mobile, music, security, finance); also he is active in many organizations and is a renaissance man (involved with innovation, enabling people, cloud, mentoring, podcast producing and more) and the main organizer for the FSI Autism Hackathon.

Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. When he isn’t playing with his 2-year-old son, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software.

Eddie helps lead CNCF’s Security Technical Advisory Group, the FINOS Technical Oversight Committee, the OpenSSF Security Baseline, and the FINOS Common Cloud Controls project.

Erick Bourgeois is a platform engineering specialist focused on Kubernetes operators and infrastructure automation for regulated industries. Creator of Bindy, an open-source DNS controller built in Rust, Erick brings expertise in cloud-native architecture, compliance frameworks (SOX, NIST), and building production-grade Kubernetes operators for enterprise environments.