WealthTech CPTO · Fintech Technology Advisor · London, UK
I build and scale trading and wealth platforms — from institutional risk systems to high-growth fintech product organisations. Previously Head of Wealth & Trading Platform at Revolut; currently advising founders and operating as CTO in WealthTech.
- CTO, Vega — Scaled engineering 0 → 35+ and the company from ~$1M pre-seed to ~$20M Series A; architecture supporting large institutional AUM and client base
- Head of Wealth & Trading Platform, Revolut — Led a tribe of 24+ engineers (market making, market data, risk, brokerage); portfolio systems at $650M+ AUM; SOR hedging <60ms; brokerage expansion (AU, SG, US)
- Engineering Lead, Deutsche Bank — Expanded FX risk calculator to Fixed Income; stakeholder alignment with MDs; Excel → modern web risk platform
- Head of Division, Otkritie Broker — Led 10 engineers in low-latency / HFT; risk engine at 1M+ updates/sec for 400k+ investors; in-house derivatives pricing and margin strategies
Trading platforms · market making · risk & derivatives · market data · platform leadership · investor-grade architecture
- Site & insights: batiaev.com · blog · talks
- Open source: fintecy/connectors (market data)
- Community: Stack Overflow (~420k people reached) · Fintecy on Medium
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/batiaev
- Telegram: @batiaev_com