Earlier this month, the Symphony Software Foundation conducted its first public hackathon of the year, in conjunction with Deutsche Bank Labs, Silicon Valley. As our first hackathon outside the major financial hubs of London and New York, I saw it as an opportunity to attract new types of participants and this was a great success - many of the participants had not previously used or heard of Symphony, and many of them did not come from a financial services or fintech background.
Jon Freedman, head of trading technology at Brevan Howard, was one of the earliest contributors to the Foundation. Along with leading the hubot-symphony project, which was the first project to achieve “active” status, he is one of the most active committers in the community. On top of all of this, we’re also happy to say that he is our latest at-large member.
As many of you will know, Symphony can run either in a browser or in a desktop client made up of the HTML5 Symphony application and the Minuet HTML5 desktop container.
Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Colin Eberhardt, technology director at Scott Logic and the first at-large member of the Symphony Software Foundation. I’ve been developing software for the financial services sector for the past ten years, and through working as a consultant, have had the pleasure of working with many different investment banks, brokers, asset managers and energy trading firms.
