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.
Open source is valuable in many ways, and as more and more people in the financial services industry realize this and embrace said value, it creates a mutually beneficial ecosystem for those involved.
As you might remember, at Symphony Innovate 2016, Symphony announced the development of a powerful integration framework and readily available integrations extending the Symphony platform to transform the way we work and collaborate. At the same time, we also announced that all of these integrations as well as the framework would be contributed to the Symphony Software Foundation. As a refresher, here are the integrations that were announced:
Frank Tarsillo, Managing Director and Head of Architecture for the Financial Markets division at IHS Markit, has been an integral member of Symphony Software Foundation.
A recap of our energizing First Members Meeting