OUR WORK

A quarter-century of building things that run.

Selected engagements across finance, trading, quant research, and data infrastructure — the foundation Ciclo now brings to AI.

AI Injection · Agents · ERP

Chaski ERP × AI Agents

Retrofitted Ciclo's production Chaski ERP with a layer of AI agents that maintain, operate, and extend the platform alongside the existing team. Agents handle cultivation batch hygiene, inventory reconciliation, Metrc v2 compliance checks, package/work-order automation, and customer-support triage — reading the same database, API, and logs the operators use. The result: faster feature delivery, fewer compliance fire drills, and a template for AI-augmented operations our customers can adopt in their own ERPs.

Finance · Quant · ML

Algorithmic Trading

Designed and built a suite of intraday and multi-day electronic trading algorithms over the most liquid North American equities. Strategy fuses news sentiment via NLP (Natural Language Processing), fundamentals, and technical signals.

Quant · Data · Infrastructure

Amauta Quant Research Platform

Full quantitative research stack: backtesting, event profiling, and market simulation over a large tick dataset across North American exchanges.

Optimization · Risk

Portfolio Management Tools

Led analysis, design, and build of tools taking quant research output and producing optimized portfolio allocations, construction, risk management, and trading decisions.

Markets · Analytics

Transaction Cost Analysis Framework

Framework to fold implementation shortfall into pre-market trading decisions at scale.

iOS · Framework · Commerce

Rendezvous Mobile Application Framework

Led analysis, design, and creation of an iOS mobile application framework used to ship apps for financial, commerce, and online businesses.

Data · Messaging

Chasqui Messaging Framework

Technology- and language-agnostic data abstraction layer that acquires, transforms, and publishes information from external data providers onto an internal messaging backbone. Real estate, finance, and news feeds.

Leadership · Data · Transformation

Enterprise Data Services

Transformed a multi-geography (US, Europe, Asia) knowledge management organization. Unified data technology + operations, rebuilt as a service-aligned org, improved SLAs, and reduced budget by 37% in two years.

Architecture · Active Equity

Portfolio Management Platform Design

Architectural lead on the initial active equity portfolio management redesign for a large global asset manager.

Leadership · Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Built a global enterprise architecture organization that championed technology innovation and software reuse across the firm.

Architecture · Trading

Strategic Investment Platform

Lead architect on a strategic investment platform serving a global asset manager's active equity and derivatives businesses.

Architecture · Quant

Alpha Generation System Review

Architectural oversight across alpha generation systems with a goal of unifying them onto a single platform.

Global Rollout · Trading

Global Trading Systems

Led global dev teams rolling out a trade order management system across San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Sydney, and Toronto — covering international equity, FX (spot/forward), and listed equity/fixed-income derivatives.

Trading · Global

Order Management System

Led SF development partnering with a UK team to build the first global trade order management system for a global asset manager.

Data · Post-trade

Investment Book of Record

Represented US equity trading in building and rolling out the firm's central investment book of record.

Trading · Global

Equity Crossing

Extended a large equity crossing engine originating in SF; rolled out to Tokyo, Sydney, London, and Toronto.

Modernization · Data

Legacy Central Database Decommissioning

Led analysis, design, and decommissioning of a legacy central database in SF and Tokyo, used for international equity portfolio management, trading, and ops.

Operations

Back Office Outsourcing

Led a back office development team through outsourcing all back office operations to an external custodian.

Operations · Global

Data Operations In-sourcing

Moved global data operations to the firm's Singapore office, reducing budget while improving service levels.

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