Anton Batiaev
Fintech builder

Anton Batiaev

I build fintech products — algo, execution, and pricing non-linear risk is the part I never got tired of.

VP Product & Engineering at Capital.com — lead trading platform with ~100 engineers, 5,500+ instruments, $1.27T client volume in Q1 2026. Alongside it I build Fintecy, SHIP, and Parenza.

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Now

Previously

Selected experience

Four kinds of company, one track record

Enterprise investment banks, hyperscalers, 0 → 1 startups, and platform transformation — each role is labelled with what it actually was.

  1. Nov 2025 – present

    • Enterprise
    • Transformation

    VP Product & Engineering

    Capital.com · London

    • Technology strategy for a 1,300-person organisation
    • Own the trading-platform end to end — 87 engineers plus product
    • Multi-asset CFD platform: 5,500+ instruments, $1.27T client trading volume in Q1 2026
    • Risk-committee input across 5 regulators (FCA, CySEC, ASIC, Bahamas SCA, UAE SCA)

  2. Jun 2025 – Oct 2025

    • 0→1
    • Hands-on

    Angel investor, advisor, then CTO

    Nevis · London

    • Backed the company as an angel and advised a founder before incorporation, then stepped in as CTO to take the platform through its Series A
    • Built engineering from zero to 7 engineers through the stealth period
    • Automated digital account opening across Schwab, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs
    • AI retrieval stack — full-text plus semantic search and RAG over advisor documents
    • SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 on a multi-tenant wealth platform
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  3. Feb 2023 – Jun 2025

    • 0→1

    Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

    Vega · London

    • Grew the company from a single engineer (me) to a 50-person organisation — 35+ engineers plus product and design
    • Raised $1M pre-seed → $20M Series A, valuation $10M → $90M
    • Platform live across Apollo funds and investor types — $300B+ in alternative assets
    • Architecture survived two business-model pivots: B2C → B2B2C → B2B
    • Hands-on delivery alongside executive ownership
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  4. Feb 2020 – May 2023

    • Hyperscaler

    Head of Wealth & Trading Platform

    Revolut · London

    • Led the platform tribe — 24+ direct and 50+ indirect reports across execution, market making, market data, risk, and brokerage
    • Built a greenfield risk system: mark-to-market, collateral and variation margin, VAR/ES, DV01, Greeks, book value and accruals
    • Portfolio systems handling $650M+ AUM across fixed income, FX/IR derivatives, and spot FX, crypto and commodities
    • Liquidity aggregation with smart order routing and hedging algorithms at <60ms roundtrip
    • Launched brokerage in Australia, Singapore and the US; moved the EU market to an omnibus model via Upvest
    • Expanded coverage by +50 crypto tokens and +7 fiat currencies
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  5. Jan 2019 – Feb 2020

    • Enterprise
    • Transformation

    Engineering Lead

    Deutsche Bank · Moscow

    • Extended the FX desk risk calculator to Fixed Income
    • Migrated Excel-based risk workflows to a live web platform
    • Connected multiple upstream systems into the new risk stack
    • Aligned stakeholders up to MD level across the organisation

  6. Sep 2018 – Jan 2019

    • Enterprise

    Head of Division

    Otkritie Broker · Moscow

    • Took over the division: 10 engineers across low-latency and high-frequency trading
    • Owned the risk and derivatives-pricing stack serving 400k+ investors
    • Margin strategies including overnight swaps and repos

  7. Sep 2016 – Sep 2018

    • Hands-on
    • 0→1

    Lead Software Engineer

    Otkritie Broker · Moscow

    • Built the in-house derivatives pricing engine — options pricing, Greeks, implied vol and the volatility smile for MOEX instruments
    • Built the real-time risk engine at 1M+ updates/sec
    • SPAN portfolio margining across futures and options on index, commodity, FX and single stocks
    • Structured products, including autocallables
    • Technical lead with no reports — wrote the low-latency Java and C++ myself

  8. Sep 2010 – Sep 2016

    • Hands-on

    Software Engineer → Lead Engineer

    Before fintech · Worldwide

    • Taxi dispatch automation (Sherlock) — real-time order routing at scale of 600+ cars in London, Moscow, Paris and lot more
    • Retail POS and fiscal-register software (ATOL Frontol) — payment terminals, hardware integration, offline-first sync
    • Backend in Java and C++; infrastructure and observability on-premise and on GCP
    • Front-end in Qt, Angular and TypeScript; voice recognition and chatbots with CMU Sphinx
    • Not fintech — but six years of real-time, hardware-adjacent systems is where the latency instincts came from

Education & certifications

  • MBA · City Business School
  • M.S. Computer & Information Systems Security · PSUTI
  • Oracle Certified Java SE 8 Programmer · Oracle
  • Project Management Specialization · UC Irvine
The through-line

One problem, every role

Ten years, four employers, one recurring problem: pricing non-linear risk and keeping it correct in real time. Same problem each time, with a bigger blast radius.

  • Greeks & vol smileIn-house derivatives pricing engine — options pricing, Greeks, implied vol and the volatility smile · Otkritie Broker
  • SPAN marginingPortfolio margin across futures and options on index, commodity, FX and single stocks, for 400k+ investors · Otkritie Broker
  • 1M+ updates/secReal-time risk engine covering margin strategies, overnight swaps, and repos · Otkritie Broker
  • FX → Fixed IncomeExtended the FX desk risk calculator to Fixed Income, replacing Excel workflows with a live web platform · Deutsche Bank
  • VAR/ES · DV01Greenfield risk system — mark-to-market, collateral and variation margin, Greeks and accruals · Revolut
  • <60ms roundtripLiquidity aggregation with smart order routing and hedging algorithms · Revolut
  • $1.27T volumeMulti-asset execution across 5,500+ instruments, regulated in 5 jurisdictions · Capital.com, Q1 2026
In public

Teaching & tools

Conference talks since 2019, four Java courses taught at GeekBrains while running a division, a knowledge base on options, and a set of free calculators — because explaining a thing is how I check I still understand it.

Tools

Free, no signup, nothing leaves your browser · all calculators

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Advisory & diligence

Building and operating come first. A small number of advisory slots for founders and investors who need fintech judgment, architecture de-risking, or technical diligence.

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