Has Web3 got its priorities wrong? Sergio Barbosa, CIO, Global Kinetic Co-founder and CIO of enterprise software development house, Global Kinetic, Sergio directly heads its open banking platform, FutureBank. A skilled software engineer, innovative product developer, and keen business strategist, he has participated in several notable fintech milestones, including building…
In the first of a two-part series on Web3, Sergio Barbosa explains why a decentralized new version of the Internet has people so excited.
Global Kinetic went for autonomous delivery teams knowing that some companies have struggled to scale their use. Lorén Rose explains how they make it work.
Co-founder and CIO of enterprise software development house, Global Kinetic, Sergio directly heads its open banking platform, FutureBank. A skilled software engineer, innovative product developer, and keen business strategist, he has participated in several notable fintech milestones, including building the southern hemisphere’s first digital-only bank all the way back in 2002.]
Three keys to digital innovation at scale By Sergio Barbosa, CIO, Global Kinetic Rapidly changing consumer needs, especially in the wake of Covid-19, are driving a very real need for digitization at scale in sectors as diverse as banking, education, gaming and healthcare. Gartner Inc. predicts that worldwide spend on…
The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Availability and Recoverability By Sergio Barbosa (CIO – Global Kinetic) To date, we have looked at the security and the performance and scalability aspects of good solution architecture. If you did not catch those two posts, be sure to read up on them before…
Performance and Scalability. Designing for scale and performance requires a clear plan of when to scale up and when to scale out. This plan needs to be accompanied by a process for optimizing network and storage performance and identifying bottlenecks.
The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Security By Sergio Barbosa (CIO – Global Kinetic) A lot of fanfare has been made about the Twelve-Factor App methodology and how it is becoming the best way to approach building a SaaS based application that makes use of microservices. I am one…
by Lorén Rose
In honour of women’s month and in celebration of the strength demonstrated by the women of South Africa in 1956, we decided to put the spotlight on some of the women of Global Kinetic and asked them to share their stories and their advice to other women wanting to enter the tech industry.
How Modernism inspired Global Kinetic’s Core Values By Martin Dippenaar (CEO) My favourite period of Architecture is the Modern movement spanning 1920 to the 1960s. The fathers of the Modern movement; Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson with buildings like Falling Water, The Barcelona…
