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Edward Stevens is a boutique consulting firm specializing in strategic advisory services, enterprise, solution and technical architecture, as well as delivering solutions for data warehousing, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, cloud transformation and security.I advise companies seeking technical and strategic perspectives to build and scale reliable, secure, and leverageable platforms & services.Cloud Architecture and Security Transformation at FundationFundation offers an advanced lending platform white-labeled by major financial institutions• Development on Azure of a c#/.Net Core multi-tier web application including Azure App Services, API Gateway, Azure Functions, SQL Server, MVC, and API development with Postman. • Restructured the 50-person technical department (architects, developers, QA, and analysts) into agile teams• Created the product platform for its small business Payroll Protection Program (PPP) system, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps pipeline, transforming to Azure industry standards• Migrated from a monolithic to microservices modelPre-Sales and Business & Marketing Strategy at Fix Flyer• Devised customer solutions. Oversaw the company’s social media strategy and authored blog articles and whitepapers regarding capital market trends, open source & enterprise software, cloud vendor solutions, encryption, and cybersecurity.Other projects including short-term engagements and start up endeavors:• Finance and Accounting Engine built on C#/.NET Core, MySql, Blazor, Azure App Services, API Gateway.• Financial Modeling Startup: Created data warehouse and ingestion pipeline of financial market data on AWS (Kinesis, S3, RDS, ElasticSearch) for big data analytics with python, R, and Databricks• Smart Order Router: Developed flexible, scalable rules-based trading engine in .NET/C#, Redis, FIX

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Strategic leader overseeing initiatives in the data, technology and AI strategies within the Banking and Investment verticals.Implemented MVP for a major Buy-Side firm: a digital-twin equity analyst to ingest earnings call transcripts and analysts notes. (Langchain, langgraph, databricks, Azure.)AWS Architecture Assessment for major credit card company of loyalty platform including AWS well architected framework.Commercial Banking Migration Strategy: API and middleware strategy for moving from to Fiserv cloud.

London, Gb

Design large platform architectures to achieve business transformation of multiple solutions into a single platform for shared interoperability (global, spanning 24 geographic regions, with a hybrid solution of cloud and on-prem).Trusted technical advisor to engagement teams. Proposed technology solutions to current/future pipeline of pursuits across service lines.LeanIX for enterprise architecture to align stakeholders, enterprise architects, business architects, and solution architects for application rationalization and transformation scenario analysis

New York, Us

With over 180 clients worldwide, including UBS, GBM, Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan, FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi–asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies.Devised customer solutions. Oversaw the company’s social media strategy and authored blog articles and whitepapers regarding capital market trends, open source & enterprise software, cloud vendor solutions, encryption, and cybersecurity.

Hired to lead IT strategy for this equity hedge fund’s operational systems. Built and integrated in-house and outsourced risk management, compliance, and trading tools and dashboards. Roadmapped the tech stack from a reliance on third party technologies to a more cost-effective hybrid model.

New York, Ny, Us

Caxton is one of the oldest and most prestigious global macro hedge funds.• Led a team of 20+ managers, architects, developers, and analysts to design, implement, and support 15+ mission critical platforms used daily by 200+ traders and portfolio supervisors. Aligned IT strategy with the hedge fund’s business priorities: agility and risk management. Team Leadership & Strategy• Recruited and hired 20+ people: technical leads, architects, fullstack developers, and quantitative analysts• Spearheaded Caxton’s migration to the cloud (AWS) reducing annual data storage cost from $300k to $40k• Created two generations of firm-wide SDLC processes & DevOps pipeline• Represented Caxton as a panelist and moderator at two Financial Technologies Forum data conferences• Established and executed a three-year strategic planTechnical, Finance & Architecture• Led implementation of Caxton’s mission-critical firm-wide real-time portfolio and risk management system (.NET/C#, FINCAD, Oracle) used by portfolio managers, traders, risk and senior management which enabled both centralized firm-wide calculations of risk as well as local portfolio exposure, rebalancing and order generation. • Managed Bloomberg AIM as firm-wide OMS for equity trading and implemented firm-wide order management.• Implemented cloud-based drop copy service with FIX Flyer for sub-second position updates • Implemented Murex V2.11 building interfaces for full spectrum of asset classes• Created state of the art middle office trade hub to keep trades, position, and risk in sync among front office, middle office and risk management• Innovated a “Data Lake” of financial market data on AWS with S3 and RDS which ingested structured and unstructured data via automated file upload and streaming data via RabbitMQ and Kinesis; data indexed via ElasticSearch for smart querying. Developed scalable data lake to import unstructured & structured financial market data (AWS, S3, RDS, ES)

Co-founding partner of a trading exchange software startup. Acquired and re-engineered a responsive web application to easily customize a broad range of financial transactions. Launched with a public Over-the-Counter (OTC) stock exchange.

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