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Our commitment as your CTO

Management

Managing technology projects can be tricky, to say the least. Drawing from 30 years of experience, I can help ensure your projects stay on track, quickly identify problems, and ensure vendors deliver value.

Roadmaps

How should technology look within your organization in one, three, and five years’ time? We plan, maintain, optimize, and track deployments, timelines, and project lifecycles. Defining KPI and performance checks for the technology set-up for maximum value on investment.

Vision

Helping you realize your vision by helping to assemble a development team and leading them to develop a product.

Reduce Risk

We help you evaluate what worked and didn’t work last time, how the organization needs to change, and the key attributes needed for your next CTO to be successful. We’ll even help you interview and select the right candidate.

Technology Integrations

Integrating technology into the company IT framework, projects, and processes for a zero-downtime, seamless information flow and anytime anywhere access.

Budgets

We will estimate the budget for development and infrastructure, suggesting different options that suits the organization.

About Me

Leader in the IT industry for more than 25 years.
Highly experienced managing on-site and off-shore teams.
Out of the box thinker.
Own a unique process that triggers growth.
Ability to translate complex business processes into technical requirements.
Utilizing Agile/Lean processes.

PACKAGES

Standard

$12K monthly

Technical Assessments
Set the technology strategy
Setting company's objectives
Technical guidance

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STARTUP

$16K monthly

ALL from #Standard
Technical Roadmap
Define and Apply best practices
Design clear procedures to have expected outcomes
Strategy implementation
Weekly meetings and follow up
Handling Vendor's relationship
Hiring Process

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CORPORATE

$20K monthly

ALL from #Startup
Business Analysis and Requirements gathering
Daily meetings with the team utilizing Agile methods
Automation of your DevOps operations (cloud maintenance, deployment, testing, etc)

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CASE OF STUDIES

Fintech Startup CTO gave 1 month leave notice

A fintech startup that was in its series B funding round, was losing its Chief Technology Officer after he gave them one month’s notice.

Fintech saved +60% on their overall budget

A lead fintech that provides CRM tools for the “Merchant Cash Advance” industry, was growing rapidly year after year, and with that its demand for its software.

Hedge Fund startup to setup their HFT electronic trading

Two former executives from a recognized bank decided to start a new Hedge Fund that traded electronically on the forex and futures market.

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Chief Technology Officer also known as Chief Technical Officer

We are part of SiS Software Factory

Our approach

Whether you need senior leadership consulting or project-based executive expertise, our retained CTOs can provide technology-centered leadership needed to match business strategies with technology architectures. We provide consulting and advisory services across a multitude of modern technology solutions and service requirements such as cloud hosting, software as a service (SaaS), software development, on-site and offshore team management, and more.

A chief technical officer, sometimes known as a chief technology officer or chief technologist, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on the scientific and technological issues within an organization. A CTO is very similar to a chief information officer

CTO ADVISORY SERVICES, PART TIME CTO, VIRTUAL CTO SERVICES TO HELP YOU REACH YOUR BUSINESS GOALS

Being one of the experienced technology consulting companies, we offer you access to the executive-level technology expertise and on-demand full-time resources on a wide range of technologies and digital platforms, through our Virtual CTO Services for established organizations and CTO as a service for startups.

Virtual CTO services or CTO consulting is a unique offering where experienced technology expert specifically chosen for your business needs, works with you to ease and support IT initiatives, outline tech strategies and approaches according to business goals, manage technology infrastructure, tools, and teams. Under CTO as service, the technology expert works with you to support as a consulting CTO and is accessible in your time zone, on your preferred communication channels, and in your office on-demand.

Hedge Fund startup to setup their HFT electronic trading

Two former executives from a recognized bank decided to start a new Hedge Fund that traded electronically on the forex and futures market. They wanted to build their own electronic trading platform and be able to achieve the best low latency execution in the market.

Their goal was to setup a state-of-the-art High Frequency Trading desk, and they needed a heavy technological partner to start their operations.

Initial Goal

Research on the current providers in this field to leverage our starting up time.
Setup top team with a quantitative background
Define the roadmap
Establish a bold technical leadership

Problem(s)

They had an endless variety of providers. We needed to choose the best in order to stay competitive.
Lack of human resources
Zero margins for miss-steps or errors

Solution

Found reliable providers in the hedge fund industry and got a great initial deal.
Recruited and hire top professionals: 2 quants, 1 researcher, 1 network support, FPGA support)
Designed the procedures and plan for the next year
Created a toolset that gave a comfortable framework to generate trading ideas.

User Interfaces - GUI

VisualHFT

GUI for enterprise-level high-frequency trading systems, making focus on visualizing market microstructure analytics, such as Limit Order Book dynamic, latencies, execution quality, and other analytics.

It also allows making adjustments to the strategies and models on the go, panic switch, and liquidation button for emergencies.

VisualHFT GUI for enterprise level high frequency trading systems, making focus on visualizing market microstructure analytics, such Limit Order Book dynamic, latencies, execution quality, and other analytics. — VisualHFT GUI for enterprise level high frequency trading systems, making focuses on visualizing market microstructure analytics, such Limit Order Book dynamic, latencies, execution quality, and other analytics.

Find this open-source project on github.

Reactive Trader GUI

We also have integrated the best-known trading interface into our systems to allow clients to use a fully complete and scalable solution,

For that reason, we choose “Reactive Trader” to be the perfect companion for our platform.

Reactive Trader is the best open-source GUI, from Reactive Trader, with capabilities to run on any platform, on-premises, and with the best technology.

Trading Monitoring GUI Active trader | Interface Trading Platform

Reactive Trader Features

A real-time architecture, both event-driven and fully resilient
Price streaming, RFQ submission, trade execution, and analytics
An intuitive User Experience (UX), with a consistent style across multiple devices
Intelligent Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Support for multiple desktop container and interoperability platforms
Built on React, React-RxJS, Node.js and Adaptive’s Hydra platform
Support both on-prem or cloud, using GCP, Docker and Kubernetes
Centralized, easy to maintain, design system

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Fintech saved +60% on their overall budget

A lead fintech that provides CRM tools for the “Merchant Cash Advance” industry, was growing rapidly year after year, and with that its demand for its software.

Their incapacity to scale up and lack of technical management was their main problem.

Initial Goal

Learn about the company’s goals planned for the next 6-12-36 months
Understand current team configurations.
Set a new plan for the future.

The Problem(s)

They were hiring new developers without having a clear path.
Most of their employees have no experience in the fintech industry.
Under-utilized their cloud services, hence spending more than expected.
No processes nor methodologies in place
The software was built under a poor architectural foundation, hence, no room to scaling up.
Total lack of technical leadership

Solution

First, we defined the goals and build a solid and realistic plan for the next year
Over the next 6 months, we restructured the whole team, and we build a solid offshore development team, saving more than 60% on what they were already spending
Designed a solid “SDLC” methodology using the best practices (Requirements → Prototyping → Development → Testing → Maintenance)
Created automated testing methodologies
Helped to reduce their bugs by a 90%
Speeded up their delivery process by a 70%

Fintech Startup CTO gave 1 month leave notice

A fintech startup that was in its series B funding round, was losing its Chief Technology Officer after he gave them one month’s notice.

The Managing Partners contacted us to validate the different options they had to handle the transition.

Initial goal

Evaluate the current situation
Knowledge transfer
Set foundations for a new in-house CTO

The Problem(s)

Our initial findings were astonishing: the outgoing CTO was the only one who knew certain parts of the system and setups. Very common, particularly on startups with small teams.
We have found that there were no clear goals, and the development team was working on ad-hoc mode, as issues and bugs popped out.
The technical leadership was unclear.

Solution

Have meetings with the outgoing CTO to recount all the different company’s technical aspects and allow us to find out how they are organized.

Based on that, and after the approval of the management, and in the fintech startup industry, we designed two different plans with different goals: long term and short term.

Long term plan: re-arrange the team and help to hire additional people making sure everything is aligned with the plan. We define KPI’s for each role in the company for easy follow up. We also suggested different providers, that ended up reducing their overall budget.

Short term plan: find the perfect replacement for the CTO role. Make sure that the person will have a good affinity with the company’s culture. Have the field prepared with a plan in place.