See Kontomatik and the rest of the FinDEVr London speaker lineup on June 12 & 13. Register and save 20% with their promo code Kontomatik20LD17.

Interview with Piotr Włodarek, Kontomatik’s CTO:

Where did you start your career and how did you gain the experience needed to run the tech side of your company?

I started programming in 1995 and professional career around 1998, while in high school. I am a computer science graduate from Warsaw University of Technology. Before co-founding Kontomatik, I worked at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland).

From a technologist’s perspective, what’s unique and game-changing about your technology?

Multiple companies provide programmatic access to banking data (topic known as banking APIs or banking data aggregation). Kontomatik banking API is uniquely praised for reliability and speed. Reliability is achieved, among other things, by extreme analytics-driven approach to maintenance. Speed is achieved by uniquely working in a lower layer of the technology stack – pure Java – instead of relying on heavy “cows” like headless browsers.

Tell us about your favorite implementation of your solution/technology.

One of our major clients uses Kontomatik in 5 countries across 3 continents – ranging from Mexico to Russia – and is consistently over-performing competition thanks to massive volumes of clean data provided by Kontomatik.

FinDEVr London 2017 is sponsored by TestDevLab.

FinDEVr London 2017 is partnered with Aite Group, Banking Technology, BayPay Forum, BiometricUpdate.com, Brave New Coin, Breaking Banks, Byte Academy, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Cointelegraph, Colloquy, Cooper Press, Distributed, Economic Journal, Empire Startups, Femtech Leaders, Finmaps, Fintech Finance, Global Data, Harrington Starr, Holland Fintech, Level39, London Tech Week, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, Plug and Play, SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, SME Finance Forum, Startupbootcamp, Swiss Finance + Technology Association, and Women Who Code.

See IdentityMind Global and the rest of the FinDEVr London speaker lineup on June 12 & 13. Register and save 20% with their promo code IdentityMindGlobal20LD17.

Interviews with IdentityMind Global’s Chief Marketing Officer & CTO.

Interview with Jose Caldera, Chief Marketing Officer:

Where did you start your career and how did you gain the experience needed to run the tech side of your company?

I started in a small services startup integrating network security products into financial institutions. Then went to Carnegie Mellon University for a master’s program on information networking, which is a mix between computer science and business. From there, I started to work as a consultant for assessing application and network security. Then as a security development engineer, and then moved to product management and have been doing product management and marketing since.

From a technologist’s perspective, what’s unique and game-changing about your technology?

Since the very beginning we started building digital identities to solve risk problems in the digital financial ecosystem. The notion of understanding digital identities was a game changer; the market is now understanding it. As we understand more about the use of digital identities, we are bringing innovative aspects into the analysis and exposing it through APIs to make it accessible to every one.

Tell us about your favorite implementation of your solution/technology.

We have a client that has been able to grow their customer base to millions of consumers and has been able to keep their compliance and risk team of the same size. They started with us when they were on-boarding only hundreds of customers a month. Now they are growing by tens of thousands per month, and their on-boarding is highly automatized. They have passed all regulatory compliance audit with flying colors, almost zero fraud, and still the same three people that were in their team when we started working together almost two years ago.

Interview with Kieran Sherlock, CTO:

Where did you start your career and how did you gain the experience needed to run the tech side of your company?

A 30 year series of startups, always staying long enough to learn from the hard times.

From a technologist’s perspective, what’s unique and game-changing about your technology?

The ability to embed examination of a user’s history and relationships (across our client base) into your transaction and account creation decisioning process.

Tell us about your favorite implementation of your solution/technology.

A large online retailer embedding our technology into their workflows to firstly reduce the number of transactions that require manual review, and secondly to expedite the decisioning of transactions that do require review.

FinDEVr London 2017 is sponsored by TestDevLab.

FinDEVr London 2017 is partnered with Aite Group, Banking Technology, BayPay Forum, BiometricUpdate.com, Brave New Coin, Breaking Banks, Byte Academy, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Cointelegraph, Colloquy, Cooper Press, Distributed, Economic Journal, Empire Startups, Femtech Leaders, Finmaps, Fintech Finance, Global Data, Harrington Starr, Holland Fintech, Level39, London Tech Week, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, Plug and Play, SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, SME Finance Forum, Startupbootcamp, Swiss Finance + Technology Association, and Women Who Code.