The starting point is one plenty of funds will recognise: standalone tools built inside the firm over the years, one after another, with no cohesion between them. Different languages, no central deployment, some on obsolete frameworks. The people who built them were long gone, so they were not really maintained. And because none exposed an API, no system could talk to another — requiring numerous manual steps.
We replaced the tangle with one open platform. One source of truth for instruments, positions and prices. Pre- and post-trade compliance with a real audit trail. Risk metrics that fit the way the team already works. Fee, distribution and sales-attribution rules centralised — no more data argument between sales, middle office, finance and top management. It sits between the firm’s analytical database, its fund administrator and its legacy trading system — with external market-data vendors feeding in — and keeps them in sync.
Kotlin · Jakarta EE on WildFly · React frontend · jOOQ · SQL Server. Test-driven development throughout, automated CI/CD pipelines, with integration tests on real SQL Server. The engineering loop itself runs on a bespoke AI setup.