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title: Open Source in Finance Podcast: FINOS New Senior Technical Architect - Rob Moffat
description: In this episode of the podcast - Grizz sits down with Rob Moffat, our new Senior Technical Architect, to discuss his developer journey from banks to FINOS, and then a developer's thoughts on the power of open source in financial services.
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# Community Blog
# Open Source in Finance Podcast: FINOS New Senior Technical Architect - Rob Moffat
March 25, 2022
[Grizz Griswold](https://www.finos.org/blog/author/grizz-griswold)
In this episode of the podcast - Grizz sits down with Rob Moffat, our new Senior Technical Architect, to discuss his developer journey from banks to FINOS, and then a developer's thoughts on the power of open source in financial services.
Episode show notes and transcript are available below.
Audio Podcast Version
Find all of our podcasts at [**Anchor.fm**](https://anchor.fm/finos), [**Apple Podcasts**](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finos-open-source-in-fintech-podcast/id1512371068), [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/show/431XdfX2fBdCUsopwh8td3), and all podcast platforms.
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### SHOW NOTES
**Rob's Info**
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoffat/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoffat/)
Rob Moffat is a seasoned IT professional living in the UK. Over the last twenty years, he has worked at many of the top-tier investment banks in London on regulatory and transformation IT projects. Most recently he has been an advocate for the Symphony platform and the transformational capabilities of chat bots within finance.Rob is a staunch advocate of Open Source and works on many open source projects, including the FINOS "Spring Bot" project which he built and contributed whilst working at Deutsche Bank.Rob holds a Computer Science degree and an MBA and is the author of "Risk-First Software Development"
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### Transcript
COMING SOON
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### About the Open Source in FINANCE Podcast
The FINOS Open Source in Finance Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in and subscribe to hear what comes next.
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