2018-05-25 –, 🏰
Topic: Banking with Django - how to not lose your customer's money
Abstract: How Holvi decided to pick Django as part of their core infrastructure. I'll go through both the business reasons for using Django for banking (5-10 minutes), and technical details of how we do reliable distributed software which keeps our and customer's money safe (10-20 minutes).
Anssi Kääriäinen has been a significant contributor and a Core Developer of Django ORM since 2012. Anssi has over 10 years of experience in systems design and implementation and he is an expert in optimising software to be faster for end users. Anssi holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Since 2016 he has worked as the Lead Developer at a Finnish fintech company Holvi. Anssi’s specialty is his capability to do design from both technical and user requirements points of view - he understands what customers want from a functionality point of view and knows how to implement these within the product. He believes in making reliable and simple software to solve complex problems to the end user. Anssi is a big fan of open source - especially Django and PostgreSQL database system.