Kris West
Principal Engineer at NatWest Group
Mid Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKris West is a Principal Engineer and Distinguished Engineer in NatWest Group’s Open Source Program Office with over a decade of experience designing interoperable desktop platforms for financial services. He is the lead maintainer and standards chair for FDC3, the widely adopted FINOS-led standard enabling secure cross-application workflows and intent-based handoffs across financial desktops and browsers. Kris combines hands-on engineering, product consulting and standards stewardship—having built training, conformance testing and certification programs that turned FDC3 from a specification into production-ready deployments. His background spans startup CTO roles, distributed engineering leadership and a PhD in machine listening, giving him a rare mix of research depth and pragmatic systems delivery. Based in rural Suffolk, he’s known for translating complex integration problems into elegant, standards-driven solutions that reduce vendor lock-in and accelerate enterprise development.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
TiffinsPhD, Computer Science - Machine listening, PhD, Computer Science - Machine listening at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (97)
json-schema10
windows10
javascript10
elm10
golang10
html10
swift10
rust10
json10
financial10
integrate10
electron10
finance10
typescript10
cross-platform10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
InteropIO/finsemble-bloomberg
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 15 reviews, 117 commits in 1 year 5 months
kriswest/FDC3
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Open standards for the financial desktop.
Contributions:13 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
financialopen-standardsdesktopstandards
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