John Free is an accomplished Solution Architect with expertise in enterprise application development, Agile methodologies, and financial risk management. He is the CEO of big river technologies inc., a boutique FinTech/RegTech software development facility in eastern Ontario, Canada, focused on delivering Capital Markets enterprise solutions. John graduated with distinction in computer science from the University of Toronto and has worked with various organizations in the past, including Rule Financial, Sapient Global Markets, NumeriX, and Deutsche Bank North America.

With vast experience in distributed parallel processing, big data, real-time computation, and systems architecture, John is an expert in designing, developing, and deploying NoSQL, Salesforce, OO/C#/.NET/JAVA, web, client/server and distributed technologies to support front-to-back trade processing, compliance, governance, financial risk management, and enterprise-wide information integration. His technological expertise includes the Hadoop ecosystem, Infinispan, Coherence, Java, C++, JDBC, XML, MarkLogic, Vaadin, OWL, semantic ontologies, SQL, Solr, CMIS, REST, JMS, and many other Java Community Standards and open source tools.

As a management consultant, managing consultant, and CTO, John has acquired extensive knowledge and skills in strategy development, project management, product development, and software engineering. He has dedicated his career to delivering high-quality technology solutions that meet the specific needs of his clients.