Helping Fintech Founders Build Investor-Grade* Products
Building Fintech Products That Scale Fast, Impress Investors, and Conquer Global Markets.
Double Speed to MVP
Scaled Vega from $1M pre-seed to $20M Series A, team from 0→35+ engineers
Multiply Revenue Potential
Accelerating Revolut's market-making revenue and global product expansion.
Institutional-Grade Quality
Built high-performance systems for Deutsche Bank’s FX and Fixed Income desks
* Investor-grade means building products that pass due diligence, scale cleanly, and impress technical VCs.
➔ "Engagements start from £5,000. I work with ambitious fintech founders scaling fast and targeting institutional funding."
Solutions for Fintech Founders
Strategic technology advisory to accelerate funding, scale securely, and win global markets. Build an investor-grade foundation that drives growth and ensures compliance at every stage.
Investor-Grade Tech Audit™
De-risk your next funding round with a technical audit trusted by top VCs. Identify hidden risks, showcase technical strengths, and position your startup for institutional investment.
- 10-page investor-ready technical audit deck
- Technical risk mapping and mitigation blueprint
- Scalability and product-readiness recommendations
Fundraising Timeline Rescue™
Rescue critical timelines and secure your next round with fast, focused technical interventions. Fix MVP roadblocks, reduce technical debt, and hit investor milestones without delay.
- Rapid bug resolution and scalability upgrades
- Debt reduction plans aligned to growth phases
- Team mentoring for investor-grade engineering practices
Fractional CTO Advisory™
Strategic CTO partnership without the full-time commitment. Ongoing technical leadership to keep your tech, product, and fundraising in perfect sync.
- Monthly strategic planning and fundraising alignment
- Full technical roadmap creation and execution guidance
- Support on technical due diligence and investor relations
Fintech Architecture Design™
Launch secure, scalable, compliance-ready financial products. Design complex fintech architectures that can pass audits, integrate partners, and scale globally.
- Compliance-first, audit-passing architecture designs
- Scalability and security built for institutional use
- End-to-end integration strategies for fintech ecosystems
Client Success Stories
Real-world examples of how I've helped organizations solve complex technical challenges and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Client Challenge
A fintech startup needed to scale their engineering team and infrastructure to support rapid growth while maintaining high code quality and team morale.
Solution Approach
- Scaled company from pre-seed with $1M raised to $20M at Series A
- Build engineering team from 0 to 35+ engineers
- Led by example: #3 in total code contribution with 880+ commits and 455k+ sloc added
- Designed microservice architecture to manage 500B+ AUM and 10k+ clients for Apollo Asset Management
Results & Impact
View Success StoryClient Challenge
A rapidly growing fintech needed to build a scalable portfolio management system to handle increasing AUM and support global expansion.
Solution Approach
- Led the Platform Tribe of 24+ engineers across market making, market data, risk management and brokerage
- Designed and build portfolio management system handling $650M+ AUM across multiple access classes
- Architected smart order routing (SOR) in market making for hedging with <60ms roundtrip
- Supported launch of brokerage operations in Australia, Singapore, and the US
Results & Impact
View Success StorySolution Approach
- Led a team of 3 engineers to expand FX desk risk calculator to new asset class - Fixed income
- Presented the project to the multiple MDs across the organisation
- Facilitated the migration from excel based solution to web based risk calculator
- Contributed into backend development to connect multiple systems to our new platform
Results & Impact
View Success StorySolution Approach
- Managed team of 10 engineering experts in low latency and high frequency trading.
- Scaled the risk engine to support over 1M updates per second, servicing more than 400k investors.
- Created in-house derivatives platform: derivatives pricing engine, options & futures greeks calculator, IV curve builder.
- Enhanced margin trading services with 15+ overnight swaps and repos strategies.
Results & Impact
View Success StorySep 2010 - Sep 2016
Software Engineer
Multiple companies · Worldwide
Solution Approach
- Multiple backend projects in Java and C++
- Infrastructure and observability projects with on-prem and GCP cloud
- Frontend projects with Qt, Angular 1 and TypeScript
- Few voice recognition and chatbot projects with CMU Sphinx
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Feedback from founders, executives, and technical leaders I've partnered with.
"Anton is a rare blend of deep fintech expertise and strategic leadership. At Deutsche Bank, he led the expansion of our FX risk platform to Fixed Income, replacing legacy systems with a scalable, high-performance risk solution. His ability to architect complex financial systems while aligning stakeholders made a lasting impact."
"Anton doesn't just build technology—he creates strategic advantages. His leadership in developing an in-house derivatives pricing engine gave us unprecedented control over margin trading, improving risk limits and significantly boosting trading volumes."
Talks & Presentations
Sharing insights and experiences through conferences, podcasts, and educational content.
Faang Talk #78
Discussion about difference between CTO in startup and engineer in FAANG
Leadership Roundtable 2024
CTO's discussion about PMF and building a high performance culture.
It's Not a Sweet B..#5
Episode #5 about Revolut and FinTech trends in product development
JavaSwag Podcast 2022
Episode #31. Many-sided fintech, MBA and transition to Product Owner
Joker Conf 2021
How to build the development process in remote-first reality?
Pouf.Conf 2019
Big Bank, Big IT. How to build live risk systems from scratch
Hydra Conf 2019
Living in a cross-language project. Java between React and C++
HighLoad Siberia 2019
Why do we do have quick FX risk calculations in the bank.
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