One contract
QTC holds the contract and Costa leads every engagement.
One accountable lead. The right senior specialists for each stage, from inception to production.
QTC is led by Costa Victoros and draws on a network of around ten senior specialists. Each has spent many years inside banks, brokers, market makers and quantitative trading firms. We bring in the specialists your engagement needs, when it needs them. You get one contract, one accountable lead and a team that has done this work before.
How it works
Named in the statement of work
Specialists are named in the statement of work under mutual NDA, before work starts.
Confidentiality and IP flow down
Every specialist signs NDA and IP terms that match yours.
Scaled to the stage
The team grows and shrinks with the lifecycle. You pay for the expertise each stage needs, not for a standing team.
Specialist profiles
Ultra-low-latency infrastructure and colocation
20+ years in trading infrastructure, including eight years leading European infrastructure for a global quantitative trading firm, and market-data team leadership at tier-one banks.
- Colocation build-outs and venue connectivity
- Low-latency network design (multicast, BGP) and RF links
- Procurement, vendor management and data-centre asset control
Rust trading-systems engineering leadership
20+ years building trading and pricing systems. Former Head of Engineering at a European crypto market maker, scaling the Rust engineering team several-fold for systems trading across dozens of venues.
- Low-latency Rust microservices
- Smart order routing, internal matching and back-office architecture
- Building and running engineering teams across regions
Performance and systems architecture (CQF)
25+ years in systems architecture, including latency and exchange-protocol performance analysis for a global quantitative trading firm, and principal compiler roles at global semiconductor and telecoms firms.
- End-to-end latency and network performance analysis
- Hardware-aware and kernel-level optimisation
- Patented low-latency interconnect design
Prime brokerage product development and regulatory delivery
Two decades of product development and project management in prime brokerage at global investment banks and agency brokers, in London and Zurich.
- Client-facing platforms and portals
- MiFID II/MiFIR transaction reporting and regulatory change
- Product ownership from requirements to release
Programme and portfolio delivery
25+ years in delivery, 20 of them in financial services across banks, an online trading platform and global technology firms, in London, Copenhagen and Sydney.
- Large client-platform migrations (500,000+ clients)
- PMO and portfolio governance for multi-year change
- New business and platform launches
Middle office and post-trade change
25+ years in middle office across Europe, London and Singapore, at global and European banks and a capital-markets consultancy.
- CCP conversions and benchmark (IBOR/RFR) transitions
- Front-to-back migrations, UAT and go-live runbooks
- Trade lifecycle, controls and reconciliation
Electronic trading product and platform migration
Electronic trading product and sales roles at global investment banks and an execution-analytics FinTech.
- Migration of 200 low-touch electronic clients onto a new execution platform
- Execution algorithms and transaction-cost analysis
- Client onboarding in English, French and German
Client coverage and prime services onboarding
More than a decade in prime brokerage client coverage and securities services at global banks and brokers.
- Hedge-fund onboarding to go-live across strategies
- Multi-asset client servicing
- Regulatory and governance communications with clients
Specialists based in the UK, Europe and the US, with delivery experience across London, continental Europe, Singapore, Australia and North America. Equities, FX, futures, fixed income, prime services and crypto.
Know exactly what stands between you and go-live.
Book a diagnostic call with Costa Victoros. In one conversation we map where your platform is today, what must be true before you trade live, and the senior specialists it will take to get there.