Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps
Proven 360° DevOps operating model practices for enabling a multi-speed bank
Spyridon Maniotis
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps
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Contributors
About the author
Spyridon Maniotis is an experienced DevOps professional based in London, UK. In recent years, his career focus has been on working with enterprise DevOps transformations in the financial services industry. His financial services DevOps experience includes Nordic, British, and French incumbent banks, as well as European payments and pension fund corporations. He has worked for more than 10 years with financial services technology at Nordea Bank, Danske Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Capco, and Ericsson, serving in several DevOps leadership positions. He is a well-rounded and seasoned practitioner of DevOps, SRE, SDLC, technology strategy, regulatory compliance, as well as agile methodologies. He holds a BSc in computer science, an MSc in software engineering, and an MBA degree.
About the reviewers
Aleksandras Artemjevas worked at an incumbent bank for 4 years. His last role there was DevOps engineer in the DevOps center of excellence. He was part of a team driving the DevOps adoption at scale. Currently, he is working at a banking infrastructure provider as a service reliability engineer.
Michał Gryko has been tinkering with electronics and computers since he was a kid. This led to a career in computer science and eventually various SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE roles. He is always focused on taking code from developers to production as quickly as possible while keeping the company running in the meantime.
Katarzyna Bieszk has 20 years of IT experience in program and project management, leading cross-functional teams to successful implementation according to SAFe/Agile, waterfall, or hybrid standards. Since 2020, she has been acting as a DevOps driver implementing DevOps Health Radar and Value Stream Mapping. She has been a trainer for SAFe DevOps courses as a SAFe Program Consultant. Katarzyna is currently employed by Nordea full time, where she heads the software development team within Group Functions Technology and focuses on increasing cloud maturity.