Thaddée is a Core Banking Expert at Qonto. So you must be wondering what a Core Banking (System) is? That’s lucky — he’ll be able to tell you a bit more about his work at Qonto and the technical challenges we face!
After a few years at Captain Train (which has since become Trainline), he was attracted to the Qonto project and joined the team in 2017 to take part in new challenges with a common purpose: to modernize the banking experience for businesses!
Qonto, the beginnings
In Qonto’s early days, Thaddée’s roles were varied and he worked with several technical stacks at the same time.
Towards a technical challenge
When the time came to develop our own banking platform, Thaddée naturally focused on the back-end when he joined the project.And what a project!In technical jargon, we call it:the “Core Banking System”.This is a back-end system that enables monetary flows to move from one account to another.But who better placed than Thaddée to give you more details on the topic?
A complementary back-end team
This new banking platform is one of the most exciting stages in Qonto’s life!It means gaining independence to offer an experience that meets our clients’ needs as closely as possible, and continuing to build the service that businesses deserve.
To attack this new challenge, Qonto has surrounded itself with technical stars like Thaddée, with varied and complementary profiles, who have been able to make it all possible!France, Ukraine, Great Britain, China, Belgium, Tunisia, Canada, Brazil, Venezuela… in short, the Qonto back-end team already has a few stamps on its passport.
Furthermore, the first 100% Qonto product, which is available on our banking platform (or Core Banking System for those who love banking jargon) will soon be available!We’ll tell you more in this article.
Please see our openings if you also want to help us meet our technical challenges!
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His inspirations...
- Fabrice Bellard - “I’m impressed by his genius. He produces very ambitious systems that reach his goals because he’s not afraid to dig deep.”
- Chris Lattner - “A very unique person. I admire his ability to coordinate broad open-source efforts despite the complexity of the topics he addresses.”
- Ian Hickson - “He is fantastic in his pragmatic management of standardization processes which have led to the boom in Web applications in the past decade.”
A few reading recommendations...
- “I like the classics...” - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- “...and those that are more recent” - Site Reliability Engineering
- Articles by Jepsen “who studies discrepancies between distributed database promises and the results of their home-made tests.”
- In terms of modern start-ups - L’obsession de service client by Jonathan Lefèvre.
- Out of a love for yesterday’s visionaries - Mother of all Demos by Douglas Engelbart
- For the subtle details that make all the difference - 99% invisible