Capabilities

Real-time market data feed handlers (exchange and vendor feeds)
Feed normalisation across exchanges and asset classes
Order book and quote distribution (Level 1 / Level 2)
Sequence numbering, gap detection and retransmission recovery
Low-latency C++ and Java: kernel bypass (Onload, ef_vi, DPDK), io_uring, epoll, network tuning
Tick data capture, storage and replay
Brokerage and trading-platform integrations

Technology

C++ Java Linux UDP multicast Kernel bypass io_uring epoll FIX Kafka Time-series databases

Capital Markets & Market Data

Real-time market data, low-latency systems and trading-platform integrations, from an engineer who built market data systems at the New York Stock Exchange, Interactive Data and Yahoo Finance. Market data has three jobs: arrive fast, arrive complete, and arrive in order. We know where latency hides and how gaps happen.

Latency measured, not guessed. We profile end to end, from the network socket to the screen, and fix the real bottleneck first.

No silent gaps. Sequence numbers, gap detection and retransmission are designed in, so a dropped packet becomes a recovered one, not a wrong price.

From one trading desk to millions of users. The same principles power a low-latency feed for traders and real-time quotes for a consumer app.

Capabilities

Banking API integrations (open banking, Plaid, MX)
Payment gateway integrations (Stripe, Braintree, Square)
ACH, wire, and real-time payment rails
Card issuing and processing integrations
KYC/AML provider integrations and workflow automation
Financial data aggregation and reconciliation
Crypto payment rail integration (fiat on/off ramps)

Platforms & APIs

Stripe Plaid Braintree ACH / Nacha Square Coinbase Commerce Jumio Onfido

Financial Services & Banking

Payments, card platforms, banking integrations and ledgers. Financial systems are notoriously hard to get right: inconsistent APIs, compliance requirements, reconciliation, and multi-rail transactions. We've done this work. We know which payment providers have reliable webhooks, which KYC vendors have edge cases in their APIs, and how to build systems that stay in sync when things go wrong.

We integrate the hard stuff — compliance included. KYC/AML flows, reporting hooks, and audit trails are part of the build, not an afterthought.

Multi-rail by design. We architect payment systems that can route across fiat, ACH, card, and crypto rails without becoming a distributed-state nightmare.

Failure-safe by default. Financial transactions can't have race conditions or silent failures. Our integration patterns are idempotent, retryable, and auditable.

Enterprise Systems

We design backend systems that scale with your business — not systems that require a rewrite every time you double your user base. Microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and the Kubernetes-native infrastructure to run them. We've migrated monoliths, designed greenfield platforms, and rebuilt systems that couldn't handle load.

Systems that grow with your business. We design for the load you'll have in 18 months, with the operational complexity you can manage today.

Zero-downtime migrations. We use strangler-fig patterns, feature flags, and shadow traffic to decompose and migrate running systems without outages.

Observability from day one. Every service we build ships with structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerting. You can't fix what you can't see.

Capabilities

Microservices design and decomposition from monoliths
Event-driven architecture with Kafka or SQS
High-throughput API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
Distributed systems with eventual consistency patterns
Database design: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra
Kubernetes deployments and infrastructure automation
CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps workflow engineering

Infrastructure

Node.js NestJS Java / Spring Kafka PostgreSQL Redis Kubernetes Docker AWS Terraform

Capabilities

Cloud architecture on AWS and GCP
Cloud migration: from your own servers to the cloud, and between AWS and GCP
Primary and backup sites across regions, with tested failover
Event-driven services on Amazon EventBridge and SQS
CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI)
Kubernetes cluster setup, hardening, and day-2 operations
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Pulumi
GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux
Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
Secrets management and DevSecOps practices

Tools & Platforms

AWS GCP EventBridge SQS Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions Docker ArgoCD Helm Prometheus Grafana Datadog

Cloud & DevOps

Good infrastructure lets every engineer ship with confidence. We design cloud platforms on AWS and GCP that are reproducible, observable and sized for the workload: fast pipelines, a backup ready to take over, automated rollbacks, and monitoring that tells you what's wrong before your users do.

A backup that’s ready to take over. Primary and backup sites in separate regions or data centres, with failover that’s tested, not assumed. Our founder ran Yahoo Finance’s market data this way, across its global data centres.

Everything as code, nothing manual. Infrastructure, pipelines, and config are version-controlled and reproducible. Runbooks are for edge cases, not routine deployments.

Ship fast, recover faster. We design deployment pipelines with automated rollbacks, canary releases, and feature flags so a bad deploy never means a long outage.

Security at every layer. Secrets management, least-privilege IAM policies, container hardening, and network policies — security posture is designed in, not reviewed in at the end.

AI-Accelerated Development

AI isn't a feature we tack onto projects — it's embedded in how we work. Our engineers use Claude, Copilot, and Cursor to shorten development timelines without sacrificing engineering judgment or code quality. You get faster delivery and lower total cost, on the same production-grade output.

We use AI as a force multiplier, not a replacement. Every line of generated code is reviewed and owned by a senior engineer.

Prototypes in days, production in weeks. AI-assisted scaffolding and test generation get us to working code faster than any manual process.

Transparent AI usage in every engagement. We document where AI tools contributed and ensure your team can maintain every deliverable.

Capabilities

AI-assisted coding workflows (Claude, Copilot, Cursor)
Automated test generation and coverage analysis
AI-powered code review and architecture validation
Rapid prototyping from spec to working demo
Automated documentation generation
AI-assisted debugging and root cause analysis
LLM integration into product features (RAG, agents, pipelines)

Tools

Claude OpenAI GPT-4 GitHub Copilot Cursor LangChain Pinecone Vector DBs

Blockchain Engineering

We've shipped blockchain systems in production — tokenization platforms, DeFi integrations, on-chain compliance systems, and enterprise blockchain integrations. We work across the Ethereum, Polygon and Solana ecosystems, and we bring the same engineering rigor to smart contracts as to any other production system: tested, auditable, and maintainable.

Blockchain without the hype. We design for the specific problem, not for the trend. Not every integration needs a full chain. We'll tell you when it does and when it doesn't.

Security-first contract development. We write tests before contracts and prepare for third-party audit from day one.

Enterprise integration experience. We've connected blockchain systems to legacy databases, identity providers, and payment rails. The interfaces are hard. We've done them.

Capabilities

Smart contract development and auditing (Solidity, Rust)
Decentralized application (dApp) architecture and build
Token design: ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, ERC-1400
Tokenization platforms for real assets
Stablecoin payment and settlement rails
Integrations with existing DEXs and lending protocols
Blockchain integration into existing enterprise systems
Cross-chain bridge development and interoperability

Chains & Tools

Ethereum Polygon Solana Tendermint IPFS The Graph

Need a CTO, Not a Codebase?

Technical strategy, architecture decisions, investor communication, and team leadership — without the full-time hire. Our Fractional CTO service is built for startups and scale-ups that need senior engineering judgment now.

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