[TOC Candidacy] <Josh Seidel>

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Affiliation

Databricks

Bio

Josh Seidel is a Lead Specialist Solutions Architect For Financial Services at Databricks, where he is responsible for designing and developing large enterprise analytical, modeling and machine learning systems that are scalable across the financial services vertical, which includes banking, insurance, technology and data providers, accounting and professional services firms. In this work, Mr. Seidel delivers deep technical subject matter expertise for domain knowledge, architecture and use-case development guiding design and development to production across capital markets, banking/payments, accounting, insurance and data providers. Prior to Databricks, Mr. Seidel developed trading and risk systems at the investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs; consulted in capital markets technology with GFT/Rule Financial; programmed at NYSE Euronext/SIAC. Mr. Seidel received a M.S. in Financial Engineering with a focus on Computational Science in 2009 and a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2004 from New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Reasons for candidacy

FINOS and the community are developing projects that have the ability to transform how financial firms operate. As an experienced software engineer and architect in capital markets and by working across the many different sub-verticals in financial services being able to survey requirements, proposed solutions, and then taking such projects to production at scale, Mr. Seidel believes that open source technology can deliver better standards, solutions and frameworks that can meaningfully contribute towards the cohesion of the projects from the FINOS community and will make a broad impact towards such a vision.

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Thanks for your candidacy @josh-seidel-db ! We've started the voting today, and we are expecting to know the results by next week; we will keep you posted.