Ray Booysen

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Singapore, Singapore22 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for Asia's top digital-only banking platform.
  • Managed delivery of mobile banking across 22 global markets.
  • Expert in engineering culture and sustainable delivery practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on digital banking and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering Leadership

Other Skills

CommunicationJavaScript.NETWPFC#Agile MethodologiesASP.NETSoftware DevelopmentDesign PatternsTest Driven DevelopmentMultithreadingContinuous IntegrationLINQScrumWindows Azure

About

I lead large-scale engineering organisations delivering digital banking products used by millions of customers across global markets. Currently Head of Digital Channels at Standard Chartered, I own the engineering delivery of mobile and internet banking across 22 markets, leading teams responsible for the full channel stack — from native mobile applications and web platforms to the integrations and shared capabilities that underpin them. My organisation spans multiple verticals, including platform engineering, security, and channel modernisation. Prior to Standard Chartered, I held Executive Director roles at DBS Bank, one of Asia's leading financial institutions, leading engineering across Digibank — one of Asia's most recognised digital-only banking platforms — and the Investment and Insurance digital channels across the region. My career began as a software engineer and technical lead, and I've maintained deep technical engagement throughout. I work across the full engineering lifecycle — architecture, delivery, quality, security, and operational resilience — and I've led large-scale infrastructure transformations including CDN migrations, data centre migrations, and platform modernisation programmes. I care deeply about engineering culture, sustainable delivery practices, and building teams that can operate at pace without accumulating the kind of debt that erodes long-term capability. Focus areas: Digital banking · Mobile & web platforms · Engineering leadership · Large-scale delivery · Platform modernisation · Cloud & Kubernetes · Security engineering

Experience

22 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
16 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Standard chartered

Head of Digital Channels - Mobile and Web, Wealth and Retail Banking

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

Chubb life

Head of Engineering

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Singapore, Singapore · On-site

  • Served as Head of Engineering at Chubb, partnering with regional stakeholders to drive engineering leadership and delivery. I chose to leave after seven months when the level of international travel required for the role proved incompatible with my family commitments.

Dbs bank

5 roles

Head of Engineering and Architecture Digibank

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos · Singapore

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Executive Director - Head of Engineering Investment and Insurance

Sep 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Singapore

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Executive Director - Head of Engineering Digibank

Aug 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Head of Engineering, Digibank

Aug 2020Feb 2021 · 6 mos · Singapore

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Head of Singapore and Hong Kong Digibank

Aug 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Singapore

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Vgw

VP of Engineering

Feb 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Australia · On-site

CommunicationEngineering Leadership

Cofco agri

2 roles

Tech Lead

Jul 2018Mar 2019 · 8 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • Returned to COFCO as an FTE to lead their development team, continuing the project of their fully fledged risk and trading system. Unfortunately left the team as the project was put on hold.
Communication

Front End Lead

Sep 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · London

  • A greenfield project building a front to back CTRM for a client. A modular front-end, hosted in Electron is being built using Typescript and React with a webpack bundler.
  • Part of this project involves all aspects of team organisation, including the organisation of process and development streams across Geneva, London and Barcelona.
Communication

Standard chartered bank

Tech Lead

Apr 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Singapore

Communication

Adaptive financial consulting ltd

2 roles

Head of Web Development

Mar 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Currently focusing on delivering a CTRM for a Geneva based client, I am also responsible for ensuring a cohesive and sensible delivery of web applications that Adaptive is responsible for.
  • With the proliferation of frameworks and technologies that appear on a constant basis, we ensure we provide the best to our clients. Choosing the right mix of technologies for your product is an important step to building maintainable and supportable code.
Communication

Senior Consultant

Aug 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

Communication

Deutsche bank

Consultant

Aug 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · London

  • Developed and worked on the Deutsche Bank FX Orders and FX swaps applications with their in-house team in Russia. Consolidating on existing work to prepare new products for lauch.

Bnp paribas

2 roles

Team Lead - Cortex Structured Products

Jan 2014Jul 2014 · 6 mos

  • The OTC Rates team was merged into the Cortex FX team that I already ran. This was to integrate the development practises and methodologies that were successful in Cortex FX into the existing team that build the OTC Rates and credit products for BNP Paribas

Team Lead - Cortex FX

Oct 2010Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Initially hired as a developer on the project during a time it was battling to come to market, we quickly gained traction and successfully delivered the product to both internal sales and traders and finally to external end users.
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Architectural design for front-to-back development of the Single Dealer Platform (SDP)
  • Development of the front and back end adapters to the bank's pricing and execution engines
  • Full agile process design and implementation
  • Responsibility of development team in London and Mumbai
  • Training of Mumbai developers.
  • Delivered Products:
  • FX Spot/Forward/Swaps, both streaming and RFQs
  • FX Orders
  • Algo orders
  • Complex FX Options Trading
  • Simple FX Payments
  • The platform has won several awards including, 2013 Profit & Loss Innovation and Algo Provider of the Year.

Ddd scotland

Speaker

May 2010May 2010 · 0 mo

  • At DDD Scotland 2010, I presented a talk on Silverlight Gotchas. This talk was aimed at Silverlight developers showing how to develop applications in Silverlight in the real-world.

Lab49

Software Consultant

Mar 2010Sep 2010 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Working at SocGen on their Single Dealer platform, I was on the team that delivered the product to release.

Societe generale

Software Consultant

Mar 2010Sep 2010 · 6 mos

  • Working as a Silverlight developer, myself and the rest of the team worked on building a Single Dealer Platform for SG. During this time we delivered streaming prices, and RFQs for FX.

Manning publications co.

Book Reviewer

Jan 2010Present · 16 yrs 4 mos

Starke industries

Director

Oct 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • A software consultancy based in London specialising in .NET technologies, including WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET

Nomura

Software Consultant

Oct 2009Mar 2010 · 5 mos

  • Brought in as a Silverlight developer, I was on a team that helped build a FX Single Dealer Platform.

Ddd scotland

Speaker

May 2009May 2009 · 0 mo

  • Speaker at DDD Scotland; 'Design Patterns for WPF and Silverlight Applications'

Dot net solutions

Software Architect and Community Leader

Nov 2006Nov 2009 · 3 yrs

Edge ug

Co-founder

Mar 2006Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Helped co-found EdgeUG, one of the busiest user groups in London. Focussing on the Microsoft technology stack, we have monthly meetings allowing members to keep up to date with all the new bits from Microsoft.

London 1st accounting services

Software Developer

Dec 2003Dec 2005 · 2 yrs

Education

Nelson Mandela University

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 2000Jan 2003

Grey High School

Matric

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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