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Sal Mangano Bio. |
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Sal Mangano has 14 years of experience as a software professional. He has expertise in such diverse areas as Object-Oriented Design and Development, C++, Logic Programming and AI, Genetic Algorithms and of course, XML and XSLT. Sal is well known in the XML community as the author of the highly regarded XSLT Cookbook by O’Reilly. Sal has also authored articles for XML.com, Dr Dobbs Journal and Electronic Design Magazine.
Sal began working with XML in an application at the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC). Here he used XML, XSLT and other core XML technologies to create a “message repository” that described the inter-process communication vocabulary of a complex trading system used by the Specialist at the NYSE. In many ways, this work anticipated features of the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL).
Presently Sal is working at a major financial institution where he has developed a framework for interpreting XML Schema as a declarative language for the extraction of XML from legacy relational databases. This toolkit is a strategic component of a fixed income trading system that is being upgraded to use a SOAP service model. In addition, this architecture relies heavily on the full potpourri of XML technologies: XSLT, DOM, XPath, Schema, SOAP, the Financial Products Markup Language (FpML). He also has the somewhat unique expertise of using XML in a C++/Unix environment (rather than Java or C#) and thus is well versed in overcoming the challenges that arise from some of the less mature tools in the C++/XML space. |
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Sal Mangano