Shirish Kalangi is a fintech and technology entrepreneur specializing in the development of open-source financial technology, blockchain, smart contracts, and systems that connect decentralized assets with traditional financial infrastructure. He is Founder and CEO of CoreBlocks Contract Studio, where he is developing AI-enabled trading technology designed to make capital markets more accessible through natural-language interaction. He is also Director at Ariadne, where he has led teams of more than 50 developers in delivering enterprise risk analytics and re-engineering core banking software to Swiss standards. In parallel, he is Director at ODED Transformational Technologies, where his work spans blockchain, Big Data, smart contracts, RegTech, and financial technology.

Shirish has more than two decades of experience across banking technology, microfinance, open-source software, and fintech. He previously served as Partner and Director at OpenCBS, where he led the development, marketing, sales, and implementation of its open-source core banking platform across South Asia. His work has included large-scale core banking migrations, financial risk analytics, RegTech implementations, and collaboration on ACTUS, an open-source project for standardized financial contracts and self-executing algorithms. His current focus is on improving compatibility between traditional and decentralized finance through algorithmic and AI-driven financial technology.