Over 15 years building OMS/EMS, FIX connectivity, market data and derivatives pricing systems inside Tier-1 investment banks — now delivered to trading firms as specialist engineering, combined with AI-augmented development.
Smaller trading firms keep hitting projects that demand deep trading-systems expertise — exchange connectivity, FIX, latency, pricing. But a senior trading engineer is slow to find, expensive to keep, and frequently more than a single project justifies.
Senior low-latency engineers are scarce and heavily contested. A search can run a full quarter before anyone writes code.
Salary, bonus and benefits continue long after the project that justified the hire has shipped.
Onboarding an exchange or cutting latency is scoped work — it doesn't need a permanent seat on the team.
I've spent over 15 years building low-latency trading systems — OMS/EMS, pricing engines, market data and FIX connectivity — for major investment banks. Bluefin brings that to firms that need senior specialist work, but not a permanent hire.
Order and execution management, from ticket to fill.
Engines, sessions and exchange sessions tuned for throughput.
Venue selection and routing logic under real market load.
Quoting, hedging and risk for automated liquidity provision.
Real-time pricing and derivatives valuation at scale.
Ingest, normalisation and distribution of low-latency feeds.
Instrument modelling across listed and OTC products.
Hot-path engineering, profiling and latency reduction.
New venue sessions, certification and cutover.
New features and extensions to existing order flow.
Feed handlers, normalisation and distribution.
Real-time pricing and derivatives valuation.
Hot-path profiling and measurable latency reduction.
Moving trading systems off ageing platforms, safely.
Finding where the microseconds actually go.
Infrastructure to test strategies against real conditions.
Proven engineering practices combined with AI-assisted development — to modernise, optimise and scale trading systems faster, without cutting corners.
A structured read on where AI delivers real, high-impact value in your workflows.
Automating manual, repetitive processes to cut errors and free up teams.
Intelligent agents that research, analyse and execute tasks autonomously.
Collecting, analysing and visualising data to surface trends and decisions.
Custom, scalable applications designed, built, tested and deployed.
Aligning technology investment with business goals and transformation.
One clearly-scoped piece of trading infrastructure, specified, built and handed over.
Extra senior capacity to get a stalled build back on schedule.
An independent read on latency, architecture or a system under strain.
Specialist depth for a defined window, without adding headcount.
The question isn't whether an OMS or a pricing engine can be built. These systems have already shipped in production, at scale, under real market load — inside global investment banks and trading environments.
Michael brings over 15 years designing and delivering performance-critical systems inside global investment banks and trading environments. His work spans low-latency trading platforms, derivatives pricing engines and market data infrastructure — built to be scalable, reliable and fast.
At Tier-1 institutions he has delivered high-performance pricing engines, OMS/EMS and real-time risk and market-data platforms — systems handling large-scale trading volumes, complex derivatives workflows and latency-sensitive execution. He works across C++, Java and Python, pairing deep capital-markets domain expertise with a pragmatic, results-driven approach.
At Bluefin Technologies he leads technical strategy and delivery, helping clients optimise, modernise and scale their trading systems through proven engineering practices combined with AI-augmented development.
Optimising, modernising or scaling a trading system — or exploring where AI fits? A short conversation is the fastest way to find out whether Bluefin can help — one trading engineer to another.