Robert Underwood
Chief Open Source Officer And Head Of Open Source Governance at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Underwood is a seasoned executive who builds and governs large-scale open source programs for top financial institutions, currently serving as Chief Open Source Officer and Head of Open Source Governance at JPMorgan Chase. With two decades of experience across banking, consulting, foundations, and education, he blends strategic go-to-market and developer experience work with hands-on technical chops in Python and OCaml. He has led OSPO strategy and curriculum development at Goldman Sachs, designed inner source pilots at Citi, and helped launch and professionalize FINOS as a bridge between finance and open source. Comfortable in Fortune 100 boardrooms or coding MVPs in coworking spaces, he pairs fundraising and business development success with operational rigor (Lean Sigma Black Belt, CISA). A former teacher who built education tech at Relay and TeachCS, he uniquely leverages pedagogy to drive developer training, contributor readiness, and open source controls across large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Kennebunk High SchoolB.A. Government East Asian Studies, B.A. Government East Asian Studies at Colby CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard Extension SchoolAssociated Kyoto Program (AKP), Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) at Doshisha University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
pair-programming10
blueprint10
banking10
data-modeling10
jupyterlab10
legend10
binder10
modeling10
gitbook9
jupyter9
financial9
finance9
webassembly8
pyodide8
api8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
brooklynrob/book
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
V2 of Real World OCaml
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
lwtmulticoreocamlduneopam
brooklynrob/writing_and_media
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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