DSS Speaker, Jason Parrott, FactSet (Software Comany)

Title: FactSet.io: A Story of Enterprise Culture & Software Development 

Bio

Jason Parrott is a Principal Software Engineer at FactSet, a financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. He received his B.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and B.S degree in Computer Science with Honors in 2008 from the University of Delaware.  His group architects a Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure called FactSet.io that manages the deployment of thousands of customer-facing applications and services around the world for FactSet engineers.

Abstract

What does it take to transition a financial software company from a legacy monolithic application running on the mainframe to thousands of independent micro services running in the cloud?  This talk will explore what it takes to build the software infrastructure required to pull off a technical renaissance within a large enterprise.  You will learn how we built FactSet.io, an internal Platform as a Service, from the ground up: its evolving architecture, improving productivity through agile techniques, and the struggle to instigate change in a large enterprise.