Founder of Lend2Fund. Designed and built banking and financial systems in London, Norway and Sydney for leading institutions such as Goldman Sachs, London Stock Exchange, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank. Silicon Valley trained in semi conductor FPGA technology at Xilinx. Having designed banking systems around the world has given me a deep insight into how the banking systems of tomorrow will evolve. My highlights - Built Goldman Sach's equity algo trading platform. - London Stock Exchange trading upgrade. - Architect for the $1 Billion upgrade of Westpac's Online Payments system (BPay, FX, SWIFT/NCC/IBAN, DE, RTGS) - Designed and built Westpac's Foreign Exchange platform. - Commonwealth Bank - CommBiz and NetBank. Trained by the first Certified Scrum Coach in the UK, Geoff Watts, and by Agile Manifesto signatories - Alistair Cockburn, Rob C Martin and Martin Fowler.

Founder @ Lend2Fund is a marketplace lending platform for commercial real estate. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaCommonwealth Bank @ From July 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 1 month) Sydney Area, AustraliaWestpac Online Transformation Project @ From October 2012 to June 2013 (9 months) SydneyFX & Commodities, Carbon, Energy & Equites @ From March 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 4 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaDesktop and Auto Trading Systems at Goldman Sachs @ From November 2008 to March 2011 (2 years 5 months) Scrum Master/Application Architect @ From July 2008 to August 2009 (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomSenior Software Engineer @ From May 2007 to July 2008 (1 year 3 months) Oslo Area, NorwaySenior Software Engineer @ From August 2005 to November 2005 (4 months) London, United KingdomSenior Software Engineer @ From November 2004 to August 2005 (10 months) London, United KingdomLondon Stock Exchange Trading Upgrade @ From July 2002 to November 2004 (2 years 5 months) London, United KingdomData Warehouse developer @ From April 2001 to April 2002 (1 year 1 month) Software Engineer @ From August 2000 to January 2001 (6 months) London, United KingdomHardware Engineer @ From February 2000 to August 2000 (7 months) San Jose

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering @ University of Canterbury From 1996 to 2000 General AssemblyGeneral Assembly Michael Smolenski is skilled in: Sybase, Trading Systems, SDLC, Stakeholder Management, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Vendor Management, Scrum, Solution Architecture, Requirements Gathering, Java, SOA, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Data Warehousing, Software Project..., Test Driven Development, Start-ups, Peer-to-peer