Contributors

About the authors

Jeffrey Ng, CFA, works at Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) Limited as Head of FinTech Solutions. His mandate is to advance the use of AI in banking and financial ecosystems. Prior to this, he headed up the data lab of BNP Paribas Asia Pacific, which constructed an AI and data analytics solution for business, and was the vice-chair of the French Chamber of Commerce's FinTech Committee in Hong Kong. In 2010, as one of the pioneers in applying client analytics to investment banking, he built the analytics team for the bank. He has undertaken AI projects in retail and commercial banks with PwC Consulting and GE Money. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in computing and management and holds an MBA in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Subhash Shah works as Head of Technology at AIMDek Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He is an experienced solutions architect with over 12 years' experience. He holds a degree in information technology. He is an advocate of open source development and its utilization in solving critical business problems at a reduced cost. His interests include microservices, data analysis, machine learning, AI, and databases. He is an admirer of quality code and Test-Driven Development (TDD). His technical skills include, but are by no means limited to, translating business requirements into scalable architecture, designing sustainable solutions, and project delivery. He is a coauthor of MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide and Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5.