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Experienced technology entrepreneur from Silicon Valley with deep domain knowledge about financial services organizations. I started my career in Silicon Valley at a number of pure-technology startups (Broadbase, BEA/WebLogic, Radik, M7) before relocating to London and working in financial services. During that time I became extremely familiar with front office analytics and risk systems for derivatives trading. I've combined the two backgrounds at OpenGamma, where we're building an Open Source platform for financial analytics and risk management. I believe in the power of developer-driven communities to build phenomenal standardized systems, whether in horizontal technologies (databases, web servers, application servers) or vertical industries with strong developer presence (such as financial services). I believe in the power of disruptive business models to reshape industries to the benefit of vendors and customers combined.Founder and Chief Innovation Officer @ OpenGamma is the author of the OpenGamma Platform, the world's first production-grade Open Source system for front-office trading and risk analytics for the Capital Markets industry. It has been described numerous times as "The Future of Quantitative Finance," and has a role in the heart of risk management for recent and forthcoming changes to the derivatives market structure. One of three co-founders, I was responsible for all strategic direction, product vision, and instrumental in marketing and sales. At founding was also the Chief Technical Officer, responsible for significant portions of the technical architecture. Led 3 rounds of equity investment (Series A led by Accel Partners, Series B led by FirstMark Capital, and Series C led by ICAP plc). Hired an experienced commercial operations team and handed CEO reins to Mas Nakachi, originally hired as COO. In 2014 appointed Mark Beeston as Chairman and took the role of Chief Innovation Officer, where I focus on product strategy, business development, sales/marketing, and technical innovation. From August 2009 to Present (6 years 5 months) London, United KingdomContractor @ Added support for trading Stock Loans to an existing Repo-trading system for the financing technology team. Led the modernization of the existing code base from proprietary, in-house libraries to modern Open Source technologies and methodologies. From February 2009 to July 2009 (6 months) Associate Director, Front Office Technology @ Did first-generation design and implementation for a service oriented system to support pre-trade analysis and trade execution for the structured credit (Synthetic CDO^2) line of business. Designed and partially implemented a cross-application, cross-language framework for developing and integrating distributed systems, to connect multiple trading and pre-trade systems. Developed a system for live market data and live analytics to span all Front Office applications. Acted as consulting architect on a variety of business-facing Front Office applications. KBC Financial Products has since been split between KBC Securities and Daiwa Capital Markets. From August 2006 to December 2008 (2 years 5 months) Principal Engineer @ In charge of all data-related development, including database development and live market data. In addition, responsible for architecting and developing the trade analysis and risk management platform which covered all positions held directly or indirectly by the hedge fund management group. Smartspread is the trading tools and risk management development group for Vega Asset Management and ProximAlfa (a joint venture between Vega and BBVA). From June 2004 to July 2006 (2 years 2 months) Senior Software Engineer @ In charge of database integration components of custom application development platform. Then led Struts integration in M7 NitroX product line. M7 was acquired by BEA Systems (now part of Oracle), where the product line I worked on became WebLogic Workshop. From September 2002 to March 2004 (1 year 7 months) Senior Contractor @ Wrote XML Digital Signatures support in the Talking Blocks product. Talking Blocks has since been acquired by Hewlett Packard. From May 2002 to August 2002 (4 months) CTO, Co-Founder @ Founder and in charge of all technical direction and development. Developed significant parts of software and built engineering group from scratch. One of founding team that raised one angel round of funding and one institutional round of funding. Radik was liquidated in 2002. From February 2000 to April 2002 (2 years 3 months) Software Engineer @ Wrote the EJB 2.1 CMP implementation for WebLogic Server 5.1, and managed partner relationships for the pluggable persistence module for WebLogic Server 5.1 CMP. BEA has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation. From June 1999 to February 2000 (9 months) Software Engineer @ Wrote significant parts of the Broadbase database engine, including query optimization and execution code. The Broadbase data mart was a hybrid-ROLAP database engine designed for decision support use. Broadbase had a successful IPO, and merged with Kana Corporation. Many of the technical assets I helped develop were bought by LucidEra, and made part of the LucidDB Open Source database engine. From January 1998 to June 1999 (1 year 6 months) B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 1994 to 1998 Kirk Wylie is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Java, Databases, Linux, Python, XML, Talking, Software Development, Architecture, Architectures, Product Management, Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Agile Methodologies, Start-ups