Contact

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Emails to rob at kite9 dot com

Current Projects

FINOS

Open source projects for FINOS, the FinTech Open Source Software Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation

• Catalog of FINOS Projects
• My automated catalog generator (steal for your own org!)

Common Cloud Controls

Setting standards for cloud controls across the financial services industry

• I work with cloud architects in the Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project to build control standards, implementations and validators for the cloud.
• GitHub Project
• Talk: Scaling Cloud Governance with FINOS CCC — OSFF London 2026

Open Source Readiness

Charting the golden path to open source contribution in the finance industry.

• I work with the Open Source Readiness (OSR) Special Interest Group (SIG) to produce materials to help financial firms cooperate on open source.
• As FINOS technical architect I keep the SIG on track, author materials and convene events such as roundtables to drive out best practice.
• GitHub Project
• FSOSD — Financial Services Open Source Developer Exam
• LFD137 — Open Source Contribution in Finance

The Brain Diet

A frenetic week of activity turning Paul Houston’s paper on ADHD diets into a browseable website

• GitHub Page

FDC3 - Financial Desktop Interoperability Open Standard

A widely adopted interoperability standard for applications written by financial firms and ISVs

• I am the FINOS point-of-contact for all things FDC3.
• GitHub Project — 250+ stars, 170+ forks, active releases through 2026 · fdc3-java-api
• LFEL 1000 — Introduction to FDC3
• LFD237 — Developing Solutions with FDC3
• FCFP — FDC3 Certified Practitioner Exam
• FDC3 Sail on the web — code

Spring Bot

Build Symphony & Microsoft Teams bots with Java and Spring Boot

• Rapid construction of workflow bots equally at home on Microsoft Teams or Symphony.
• Built at Deutsche Bank, open-sourced and donated to FINOS in 2021.
• GitHub Project — 75+ stars, 36 releases, active maintenance.
• Deutsche Bank Case Study

Risk-First

Software development meets risk management — read online or buy in paperback. Second edition published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

• Get a free digital version / buy the print copy
• GitHub (750+ stars on the site repo)
• Interview: JUXTCast S6E4 — All Work Is Risk Management
• Interview: SE Radio 721 — Risk-First Software Development

Kite9

Automating the pain out of Visio et al.

• Diagramming tool with automatic layout — Kotlin, Java, TypeScript.
• In daily use for all the diagrams in Risk-First.
• GitHub Organisation

Standard Cucumber Steps

Reusable Cucumber step definitions across Java, TypeScript, Go, and C#

• Shared generic steps for property-based BDD — published to npm, Maven Central, and pkg.go.dev.
• Used in FINOS projects including FDC3, CCC and the FDC3 Java Api.

Old Projects

Pure4J

An experiment in Java purity semantics — usable but not under active development.

• Compile-time purity and immutability semantics for Java.
• Persistent collections a la Clojure.
• Why Pure4J?

Concordion Excel Extension

Excel-driven tests for the Concordion documentation framework

• Drive Concordion specs from spreadsheets — useful for complex financial calculations.
• Long-running open source project; tutorial here.

Speaking

Selected conference talks, workshops, and panels.