FINOS Technical Oversight Committee

Matthew Bain is a Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley focused on Architecture, Modernization & DevOps Automation. Matthew has worked in a number of different business areas spending over 20 years in finance building everything from Trading Systems and Data Platforms to overly adventurous Excel workbooks and even spent a couple of years building an early cloud and mobile based video streaming platform on AWS.

In addition to being a member of the TOC, Matthew is a maintainer of the TraderX project, a co-lead of the DevOps Automation Special Interest Group and the working group lead for the Architecture as Code project at FINOS, where he is looking to enable developer productivity and increased control through the ability to capture common, repeatable and crucially verifiable software development to pre-approved patterns.

Elspeth Minty is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets. She has worked in the financial industry for more than two decades. Her experience covers everything from developing core Java/C++ libraries to helping teams adopt cloud technologies. She has worked in across geographies, including London, Shanghai, and Montreal where she is now based. In her current role at RBC Capital Markets, Elspeth is helping to improve code re-use and consistent application design. Elspeth is also involved in open source and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee at FINOS, part of the Linux Foundation. Elspeth has spoken at a number of technology conferences, including Spring One, QCon London, QCon Shanghai, and InnerSource Commons Gatherings.

Elspeth has a BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Parallel Computer Systems from the University of West of England, and a PhD in Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Edinburgh.

Erick Bourgeois is Director, Head of Kubernetes Platform Engineering at RBC Capital Markets, where he leads a team of 15 engineers operating 50+ Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud and on-premises environments supporting capital-markets workloads. He brings 24+ years of financial-services infrastructure experience, including a prior tenure as Executive Director at Morgan Stanley leading container-orchestration work across 10,000+ servers in six global data centers, predating mainstream Kubernetes adoption.

He is a maintainer of 5-Spot, the on-premises Kubernetes spot-scheduling project donated to FINOS at OSFF Toronto 2026. He also maintains the firestoned GitHub organization (bindy, bindcar, hornet, zonewarden) focused on cloud-native tooling for regulated environments. Erick is a KubeCon and FluxCon speaker, author of a CNCF blog post on immutable-OS Kubernetes platforms, and has presented at OSFF Toronto with an OSFF London engagement upcoming in June 2026. He is a dual Canadian–US citizen based in Montréal.

Andrew Aitken is a recognized leader in open source strategy and governance with over two decades of experience. As the former Chief Open Source Officer at Hedera, he led the successful transition of its codebase to an open source foundation under the Linux Foundation, fostering trust and innovation in the blockchain ecosystem. A two-time elected board member of FINOS since 2021, Andrew has advised organizations like the U.S. White House, LBG, Fidelity, IBM, and Microsoft and has held leadership roles with Wipro and Black Duck Consulting. He is a frequent speaker at global conferences, a former founder of the Open Source Think Tank, and an advocate for leveraging open source to drive collaboration and innovation.

Gábor Lipták is a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, known for his extensive expertise in implementing advanced software architecture and engineering solutions. His career spans various industries, with a significant focus on the financial sector driving innovation and efficiency.

Boris Litvin is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. His job is in financial services industry innovation. Boris joined AWS from the industry, most recently Goldman Sachs, where he held a variety of quantitative roles, and was CEO and Founder of a quantitative trading startup.