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Tech in Banking Panel
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Rob Harrop
CEO @Skipjaq & Co-Founder of SpringSource
As CEO at Skipjaq, Rob Harrop leads a team working on the cutting edge of machine-driven performance optimisation. When he’s not thinking about how best to tune the myriad workloads encountered by Skipjaq customers, he’s thinking hard about how to pass the optimization burden on to...
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Mikhail Kourjanski
PayPal Lead Data Architect, Risk and Compliance Management Platform
Mikhail Kourjanski is the Lead Data Architect at PayPal, responsible for the data architecture of the PayPal real-time decisioning platform that handles billions of events per day and maintains dozens of petabytes of data. For fraud prevention function alone, this platform saves more than $500M...
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Teresa Ng
Android engineer @Starling Bank
Teresa is an Android engineer at Starling Bank. She wasn’t always an engineer. Before that she worked in Accounting and frustrated by how manual managing the financial ledgers of a large international corporation was even in the 21st century, she learnt to program and jumped into...
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