Summary
Julian Coombes is a Distinguished Engineer with over 25 years building enterprise and internet banking systems and a recent focus on delivering Open Banking infrastructure. Based in Abu Dhabi, he has led platform architecture, middleware and messaging at major banks including Barclays and Open Banking, and now shapes product and technical strategy at Ozone API. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—from middleware and WebSphere to cloud and API conformance—with product ownership experience, bridging standards, developer tooling and implementation. Notably, his career blends long-term banking domain expertise with hands-on delivery of conformance tools and platform implementations that accelerate secure open finance adoption.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer