Ostrich Cyber-Risk Welcomes Chip Whitmer as Vice President of Software Development
Former VP of Platform Architecture at Mastercard Open Banking, and API Developer, Brings Extensive Software Development and Leadership Expertise to Ostrich Cyber-Risk.
Ostrich Cyber-Risk™, the unified cyber risk management company, today announced that Chip Whitmer has joined the Executive Leadership Team as Vice President of Software Development. Whitmer joins Ostrich Cyber-Risk most recently from Finicity, a Mastercard Company, a leading provider of financial services.
Whitmer is an accomplished and respected industry veteran in both FinTech and Cybersecurity, with more than 30 years of development and international team-building experience, and more than 15 years of experience in management and architecture, building SaaS platforms using Agile methodologies for financial and data services companies globally.
Most notably, Whitmer led the release of a public API in just four months for Finicity’s internal aggregation engine, which was the engine for Mvelopes, Finicity’s award-winning online envelope budgeting system. The aggregation engine collected personal financial information and transactions from thousands of distinct banks and other financial institutions; the new API made this functionality available to other software developers. In 2016, this API was named ‘API World’s 2016 Finance API of the Year.’ When Finicity was acquired by Mastercard, Whitmer’s aggregation platform became Mastercard Open Banking.
As the VP of Software Development at Finicity, Whitmer helped build a new Data Services division, that included supervising all development on the Finicity aggregation platform and managing the migration of the platform to AWS and the production data from Oracle to Amazon Aurora. Whitmer also represented Finicity and later Mastercard in the industry standards group FDX (Financial Data Exchange).
As the VP of Platform Architecture at Mastercard Open Banking, Whitmer defined standards for development and deployment of microservices, features, and products inside the Open Banking platform. He designed solutions to bring Finicity’s codebase and processes into conformance with Mastercard gold standards, and designed solutions for integrating Finicity clients with Mastercard’s Developer Portal.
“I am thrilled to have Chip Whitmer join our team at Ostrich Cyber-Risk as Vice President of Software Development,” said Yiannis Vassiliades, Chief Product Officer. “Whitmer’s wealth of experience with building and growing impactful engineering teams and developing large scale platforms will be crucial as we continue to expand and roll out new features in our Birdseye™ cyber risk management platform.” ”
In his role as VP of Software Development at Ostrich Cyber-Risk, Whitmer will be responsible for expanding the Birdseye cyber risk management platform and growing the development team.
Chip Whitmer, VP of Software Development
“It's exciting for me to be joining the Ostrich team,” said Chip Whitmer. “This is an energetic startup with a solid product, great people, and big plans. Together we will enable our clients to understand their current cyber risk exposure and the options available for improvements. We will help them prioritize those options for maximum effectiveness and provide feedback as they work their plan to increase their overall security. This is going to be fun!”.
Whitmer is also a member of the world-famous Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City.
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