Summary
Joshua Giersch is a fintech product leader with nearly two decades of experience bridging trading desks, platform engineering, and enterprise observability. Currently Director of Product Management for Observability & Monitoring at Capital One, he leads a team shaping a five-year strategy that supports 200 engineers and helped realize $9M/year in observability cost savings within six months. Previously he scaled Visa’s Installments Platform to 20M+ enrolled cardholders and engineered RippleNet Cloud from an idea to the preferred SaaS deployment for most new customers. He began his career as an FX options trader and quant, bringing deep derivatives, P&L ownership, and risk-management instincts to product decisions. Known for turning high-stakes financial requirements into reliable, compliant cloud platforms, he combines hands-on engineering experience (including building a serverless trading stack) with executive-level strategy and cross-organizational influence.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.Bus Finance, B.Bus Finance at RMIT University