DevOps Society, London Fintech Meetup @ Rise, Created by Barclays

Our Fintech London meetup has arrived! We are delighted to be partnered with our hosts Rise, Created by Barclays, with an exciting duo of speakers lined up.

Format of the meetup event will be as follows:

6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with food and drinks provided by ReVybe IT and Zeti.

6:30pm - 7:45pm - 2X 25 minute speakers lined up with 10-15 minute break in-between

7:45pm onwards - Networking (carries on in the afterwards for anybody who wants to have a few drinks or just socialise at Flight Club Shoreditch)

#1 Daniel Bass - Co-Founder and CTO @ Zeti

Daniel is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Zeti, the green Fintech scaleup revolutionizing the world of transport finance for good. He is the Author of "Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure" and "Advanced Architectures with Microsoft Azure." Daniel is also a speaker at Microsoft Build, ServerlessDays Rome, and many others.

Title: How green is your Fintech?

Daniel will be taking us through his personal journey with building a green Fintech in London.

With sustainability at the top of everyone's agenda, this talk will guide you through how to evaluate your own businesses environmental impact and how to reduce it, with a particular focus on the decisions that developers and architects can make. He will discuss the impact of cloud versus on-premise, serverless vs IaaS and even large vs small teams.

#2 Ryota Sawada - Principal Engineer @ Civo

Ryota is a Principal software engineer and previously the founding engineer and CTO of one of Japans fastest-growing Fintech businesses, "UPSIDER".

He is experienced working with Kubernetes and Istio, building technology teams, products, and platforms for the last 7/8 years whilst being involved in the "DevOps" realm.

Title: Five Years in Fintech: A Journey Seen and Future Foreseen

Ryota will be talking about:

• Severe outage due to GCP network release

• Network instability due to unforeseen events and extreme limitation

• Why consistency is key

• Hiring challenges within a Fintech start-up

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the Rise London event space.

Address: Rise London, 41 Luke St, London EC2A 4DP