Abstract
In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.), the talk is relevant to anyone building platforms for mission-critical workloads. This talk takes a first principle lens on building platforms that must balance constant innovation and systemic significance.
The audience should expect to take home rich insights into:
- What to expect when building and sustaining platforms for years
- Balancing maintaining currency vs client disruptions
- How to avoid compromises on security, stability and scalability.
Speaker
Matthew Liste
Head of Infrastructure @American Express, Previously @JPMorgan Chase and @Goldman Sachs
Matthew Liste is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure for American Express. In this role he oversees the company’s global technology infrastructure services and resources, including engineering and operations, as well as site reliability engineering and application support, for all lines of business.
He was previously at JP Morgan Chase, where he most recently served as Head of Platform Services for Global Technology Infrastructure, overseeing the design, build, and management of the bank’s platform infrastructure. Among his accomplishments were leading the incubation and build of the bank’s private cloud platforms and the usage of public cloud, resulting in a significant portion of the bank’s application portfolio now running on hybrid cloud platforms. Matthew has been widely recognized for building a strong culture of innovation and engineering discipline.
Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, Matthew spent nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs, and was named Managing Director and Technology Fellow in 2011. During his tenure, he held several engineering roles, including network engineering, global network/voice operations, and compute and storage engineering. Matthew held prior roles in telecom and networking technology companies, and started his career working for Schlumberger in marine seismic.
Matthew holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Oslo in Norway. He and his wife Lorraine reside in Jersey City with their younger son; their older son lives away at college. Away from work, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, and traveling.
