William Soo, CTO, Voca

William Soo is Head of Architecture & CTO at Voca. William is responsible for driving the technology vision, architecture, design and development of new generation of payments services for banks and corporates. William was instrumental in the architecture and development of the new UK Payments Platform; he is also playing a key role in delivering real time payment processing within the UK.

Prior to joining Voca, William held various senior technical leadership roles in UK and Asia Pacific for EDS. As a senior member of the EDS Operations team, William led technical teams in delivering several high profile projects. William has 15 years experience in IT systems integration, and has full project and development lifecycle experience with domestic and International exposure.

He has a proven track record of delivering mission critical enterprises systems, and has successfully managed enterprise projects in the Banking, Airlines, Central Government, and E-business arena.

Meeraj Kunnumpurath holds the position of Enterprise Java Architect for Voca. Prior to joining Voca, Meeraj worked with Electronic Data Systems in the UK as a Senior Information Specialist, working mainly on e-Gov projects. He has been using Enterprise Java for more than 9 years. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer.

Meeraj also writes for popular journals and has published several Best selling Java publication from Apress and Wrox and Press Limited. He is also currently involved with the Apache Tuscany project.

Presentation: "Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring"

Track: Architectures you always wondered about

Time: Friday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: St James's Suite

Abstract:

Being paid money is now an almost universal experience. It is why most of us get out of bed in the morning. Banks entrust Voca to deliver billions of these payments electronically. They can depend on Voca's continually improving technologies to deliver the right amounts, at the right times, in ever greater numbers.

Voca is obliged to bring in each new payments technology without missing a beat -or a payment. It is Mission critical with a capital C. The new Voca Payment Platform is extremely fast, capable of processing the equivalent of the entire European daily automated payment volumes in just four hours.

Worldwide, Voca processes payments "end to end" for over 100,000 customers. They include every single FTSE 100 company, the UK Government and the world's top banks. On a peak day the Voca Payment Engine processes 80 million payments, worth £ 45 billion.

In this session, William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath will take you through Voca's Past, Present and Future state Payments Architecture.

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