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.
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.
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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Book a ConsultationWhat 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."
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






HighLoad Siberia 2019
Why do we do have quick FX risk calculations in the bank.


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