Greenfield platforms.
New trading, investment and workflow platforms taken from architecture through to production, with clear ownership at every stage.
- OMS · EMS · PMS
- FIX · API connectivity
- Risk · positions · P&L
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Financial technology engineering · principal-led
Trading and investment platforms, built with control, resilience and pace.
Axolotl Limited helps financial technology organisations build, modernise and scale the trading, investment and market infrastructure platforms that sit at the core of their business.
- 20+ yrs
- Trading & investment technology delivery
- Principal-led
- Senior engineering leadership, hands-on
- Since 2009
- UK limited company, registered in England & Wales
What Axolotl does
Engineering leadership for complex financial systems.
Work spans new platform builds, re-platforming programmes, high-pressure delivery, regulatory complexity and operational change.
Re-platforming.
Excel and legacy workflow replacement, data-platform improvement, cloud migration and controlled release uplift.
- Cloud migration
- Data platforms
- Release control
Engineering leadership.
Hiring and mentoring, vendor coordination, delivery governance and operational resilience for business-critical platforms.
- CTO · Head of Engineering
- Vendor management
- Delivery rhythm
Production ownership.
Auditability, incident response, DR/BCP readiness, release discipline and production ownership for systems that cannot fail quietly.
- Audit · controls
- DR / BCP
- Incident response
Selected work
Engagement shapes from the last few years.
A representative slice of recent and historical engagements, anonymised. Stack and delivery shape are real.
Exchange-grade trading infrastructure.
Engineering leadership and hands-on delivery for an exchange-grade infrastructure team across fixed-income and equities OMS / EMS, market operations, reference data and surveillance.
Stack
React · Node.js · Python · TypeScript · Kafka · MySQL · AWS
Rebalancing and trading platform.
Greenfield rebalancing and trading platform delivered end-to-end for a high-net-worth retail-banking proposition, taken into production against a non-negotiable deadline.
Stack
React · TypeScript · AWS Lambda · API Gateway · PostgreSQL · Terraform
Multi-asset OMS / PMS to production.
Crypto and FX OMS / PMS built from scratch through to production, with FIX execution to multiple brokers, best-price quote logic and T+0 FX integration via a white-label venue.
Stack
TypeScript · Node.js · Angular · FIX · Google Cloud · PostgreSQL
Excel workflow replacement.
Replaced 100+ Excel-based middle-office workflows with a governed Python / Airflow and C# production platform, taken through controlled release and business signoff.
Stack
Python · Airflow · C# · React · SQL Server · AWS RDS · Redis
Launch readiness.
Pre-launch advisory across PMS, OMS, EMS and infrastructure for a new hedge fund — vendor coordination, position migration, FIX session setup and trading-floor hardware.
Stack
C# · SQL Server · FIX · vendor PMS / OMS · trading-floor infrastructure
Fund-of-funds platform.
Web-based portfolio management and accounting system used to value a multi-billion-dollar fund-of-funds business through a strategic merger.
Stack
TypeScript · AngularJS · Kendo · C# · Entity Framework · Oracle
Capability depth
Trading and investment technology, end-to-end.
Strongest where the work is technically complex, the users are demanding and delivery has to balance speed with control.
Domain & stack at a glance
Two decades across the trade lifecycle, regulated operations and modern engineering platforms. Hands-on as well as leadership-led.
Trading lifecycle
OMS
EMS
PMS
Order lifecycle
FIX & API connectivity
Best-price execution
Market connectivity
Risk, operations & oversight
Positions
Risk
P&L
Reconciliation
Reporting
Surveillance
Market operations
Reference data
Platform & infrastructure
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Kafka
Airflow
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Oracle
Redis
Engineering stack
C# / .NET
TypeScript
Python
React
Angular
Node.js
Blazor
VBA
Leadership mandates
Senior technology leadership with hands-on engineering depth.
Available for CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering and senior product technology work focused on durable financial platforms and high-trust engineering teams.
Core platforms
Modernise the systems that carry the business.
Architecture, hands-on delivery and production ownership across OMS, EMS, PMS, data, risk, connectivity and market-operation systems.
Ownership
Clear accountability, strong communication and delivery rhythms that surface decisions early.
Trust
Approachable leadership that protects morale, decision quality and stakeholder confidence.
Platform health
Risk, resilience and operating signals treated as first-class delivery inputs, not afterthoughts.
AI-first software engineering
Acceleration without weakening governance.
Axolotl applies AI-assisted engineering across discovery, prototyping, development, testing, documentation and operational analysis — while preserving the controls required in regulated markets.
- Faster technical discovery and option analysis.
- Sharper prototypes, tests and documentation loops.
- Operational review that supports auditability and resilience.
Contact
For complex financial technology delivery.
Speak to Axolotl about senior engineering leadership, platform modernisation, trading-system delivery or AI-first engineering in regulated environments.