7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks - Tom Schady, GreenKey - 08 April 20

<p>In this second edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews GreenKey's CTO, Tom Schady after his FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on April 8, 2020. <a href="https://www.finos.org/blog/7-unexpected-lessons-from-2-years-of-our-sdk-in-banks-tom-schady">Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with Tom's slides.</a></p> <p><strong>Guest speaker:</strong>&nbsp;Tom Schady, CTO of GreenKey Technologies, presents&nbsp;on "7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks".&nbsp;</p> <p>GreenKey provides an open-source SDK to empower banks to extend our NLP engine with custom interpreters.&nbsp; Over the last 2 years, we've learned much: we'll share the top 7 most surprising things our startup encountered, how we solved for them, and how you might avoid them altogether.</p> <p>This podcast was from a live FINOS virtual "Meetup" on April 8, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.</p> <h3>TOM'S BIO</h3> <p>Tom Schady has 20 years experience leading engineering teams and delivering software across the defense, finance, e-commerce, and medical verticals.&nbsp; &nbsp;For the last 6 years, he's focused on delivering cloud, mobile, and web solutions for regulated, global markets at speed.&nbsp; Currently the CTO of GreenKey Technologies, his mission is to deliver state-of-the-art NLP technology to financial markets in a simple and secure way.&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;has a degree in Physics from MIT.</p> <h3>FINOS VIRTUAL "MEETUPS"<br> </h3> <p>The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and&nbsp;interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperabil