Chris Michael
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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SeniorChris Michael is a seasoned technology leader and fintech entrepreneur with over 8 years in senior executive roles and a 25+ year track record of building digital products, platforms and cross-functional teams for global brands. As Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ozone Financial Technology and former Interim Head of Technology at Open Banking, he helped design the UK Open Banking Standard and its governance model, bridging regulatory compliance with commercial realities. He has led large digital transformations—from building global Big Data and eSales platforms that drove seven-figure revenue gains to digitising high-volume public services for the UK Ministry of Justice. A pragmatic strategist and mentor, Chris combines agency and product experience (CTO roles and multiple startups) with hands-on delivery across cloud, APIs and analytics. Notably, he applies practical engineering discipline to standards work, ensuring scalable, auditable API ecosystems that serve banks, regulators and third parties internationally.
8 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
open-banking9
data-api9
api8
psd8
testing4
pii3
data-mesh2
data-management2
traceability2
sustainability2
climate-science2
spec2
metadata-management2
data-import2
open-data2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBankingUK/QTSP-Services
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Public repo for sharing information about availability of QTSP services relating to PSD2 eIDAS certificates
Contributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 17 days
psd
OpenBankingUK/reference-applications
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Suite of reference applications to facilitate development and testing relating to Open Banking APIs
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
testing
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