Fintech Expert & Technology Advisor

    Accelerating Fintech Innovation Through Strategic Expertise

    I help fintech founders, VCs, and engineering leaders build innovative financial products, scale engineering teams, and transform technology visions into reality.

    WealthTech CTOFintech ArchitectUK Global TalentMBA
    Solve Your Challenges

    How I Can Help You

    Leveraging my experience as a fintech leader to provide strategic guidance and technical expertise for your organization.

    Strategic Advisory

    Providing strategic direction for fintech startups and established financial institutions looking to innovate. I leverage my extensive experience to help navigate complex technological and financial landscapes.

    WealthTech Solutions

    Expertise in derivatives pricing, risk management, market making, DMA, quantitative math, and algorithmic trading. Building innovative solutions that leverage modern financial technology.

    Engineering Leadership

    Guiding engineering teams with expertise in Java/Kotlin, messaging protocols, databases, cloud infrastructure, and frontend technologies. Building scalable and reliable fintech systems.

    Product Development

    Leading product development through strong problem solving, critical thinking, and effective stakeholder management. Turning complex financial requirements into user-friendly products.

    CTO Mentorship

    Guiding aspiring and current CTOs through the challenges of technical leadership. From team building to technical debt management, I provide insights based on real-world experience leading engineering teams.

    Case Studies

    Client Success Stories

    Real-world examples of how I've helped organizations solve complex technical challenges and achieve measurable business outcomes.

    Feb 2023 – present

    Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

    Vega · London

    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

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    Feb 2020 – May 2023

    Head of Trading Platform

    Revolut · London

    Client 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

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    Jan 2019 – Feb 2020

    Engineering Lead

    Deutsche Bank · Moscow

    Solution 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

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    Sep 2016 – Jan 2019

    Head of Division

    Otkritie Broker · Moscow

    Solution 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

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    Sep 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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    Client Success

    What Others Say

    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."
    Alexander BeloturkinDirector, FX Risk IT at Deutche Bank
    Public Speaking

    Talks & Presentations

    Sharing insights and experiences through conferences, podcasts, and educational content.

    Faang Talk #78

    Faang Talk #78

    Discussion about difference between CTO in startup and engineer in FAANG

    25 MAR 2025Watch Youtube
    Leadership Roundtable 2024

    Leadership Roundtable 2024

    CTO's discussion about PMF and building a high performance culture.

    4 JUL 2024Check Event
    It's Not a Sweet B..#5

    It's Not a Sweet B..#5

    Episode #5 about Revolut and FinTech trends in product development

    20 DEC 2022Listen Podcast
    JavaSwag Podcast 2022

    JavaSwag Podcast 2022

    Episode #31. Many-sided fintech, MBA and transition to Product Owner

    5 Aug 2022Listen Podcast
    Joker Conf 2021

    Joker Conf 2021

    How to build the development process in remote-first reality?

    26 Oct 2021View Slides
    Deutche Bank Blog

    Deutche Bank Blog

    Mutual authentication in Java with TLS / SSL

    7 Feb 2020Read Case Study
    Find IT Moscow 2019

    Find IT Moscow 2019

    Clean Code : Striving for the unattainable

    5 Oct 2019View Slides
    Pouf.Conf 2019

    Pouf.Conf 2019

    Big Bank, Big IT. How to build live risk systems from scratch

    26 Sep 2019View Slides
    Hydra Conf 2019

    Hydra Conf 2019

    Living in a cross-language project. Java between React and C++

    11 Jul 2019View Slides
    HighLoad Siberia 2019

    HighLoad Siberia 2019

    Why do we do have quick FX risk calculations in the bank.

    24 Jun 2019View Slides
    Jug Ru Group Blog

    Jug Ru Group Blog

    Interview about financial math

    30 Apr 2019Read Case Study
    JPoint Conf 2019

    JPoint Conf 2019

    Interview at Deutche Bank stand

    5 Apr 2019Watch Youtube
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