Legacy complexity slows change
Coupled services and accumulated workarounds make each product change harder than the last.
Investment platform engineering
Engineering investment platforms for tomorrow
We help FinTech companies build and modernise trading, investment and post-trade platforms where reliability, security and regulatory demands are fundamental.
The challenge
Complex platforms rarely have the luxury of starting over
Investment platforms must evolve while existing services, data flows and regulatory controls continue to operate reliably. Interconnected workflows and legacy dependencies can make even focused changes difficult to isolate and deliver safely.
Integrations multiply operational risk
Every external provider brings different data, protocols and failure behaviour.
Growth raises the performance bar
As the client base and data volumes grow, platforms must scale while meeting increasingly strict performance and availability SLAs.
Product pressure does not wait
Teams still need to launch new capabilities while strengthening the platform beneath them.
Our response
Engineering across the investment lifecycle
We combine specialised financial-domain experience with API, cloud and platform engineering expertise to evolve reliable financial products.
Trading APIs & financial integrations
Secure APIs and integrations for order capture, portfolio data, market data and external financial services.
- Order capture and validation
- Trading and market-data integration
- Asynchronous processing
Portfolio & order workflows
Consistent services for positions, orders, transactions and portfolio views across distributed systems.
- Portfolio and position services
- Event-driven order lifecycles
- Data consistency and traceability
Post-trade engineering
Business-critical workflows supporting the operational lifecycle after trade execution.
- Settlement and reconciliation
- Corporate actions
- Reconciliation and break resolution
Regulatory reporting
Traceable pipelines and services designed around data correctness and changing regulatory requirements.
- Reporting workflows
- Auditability and data lineage
- Adaptable regulatory controls
Security & compliance
Identity, access controls, auditability and regulatory requirements designed into platform workflows.
- Secure service boundaries
- Audit trails and traceability
- Compliance-ready engineering
Platform modernisation
Incremental cloud and architecture modernisation that improves scalability, resilience and delivery speed while protecting critical platform operations.
- Architecture and decomposition
- Cloud-native services and CI/CD
- Reliability and operational resilience
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Relevant experience
Hands-on experience from established financial institutions and business-critical investment systems.
LinkedIn profileA proven track record in investment-platform engineering
LoadstarSoft is led by Kirill Avramenko, a solution architect and hands-on engineering leader with more than 20 years of experience building business-critical software. His investment-platform experience includes Saxo Bank’s Trading Open API, post-trade core systems and regulatory reporting—domains where reliability, traceability and safe platform evolution are essential.
Architecture and engineering experience with APIs that connect client applications and partners to multi-asset trading capabilities.
Experience spanning external APIs, product workflows and platform integration.
Engineering experience across post-trade core systems and regulatory reporting for established financial institutions.
Experience shaped by domains where scalability, reliability and traceability are non-negotiable.
How we work
Build, learn and improve—together. Platform changes take shape through focused cycles and frequent client feedback.
Cycle 01
Understand and focus
Clarify the business goal, platform boundaries, operational risks and the smallest valuable change.
Client feedback
Align and prioritise
Cycle 02
Engineer and validate
Deliver a working increment with security, observability and operational behaviour included.
Client feedback
Review and redirect
Cycle 03
Strengthen and evolve
Use real feedback to improve the architecture, automation and next platform capabilities.
Client feedback
Learn from real use
A good fit
When your investment platform cannot stand still
- You need to introduce new investment capabilities without rewriting the core platform.
- External integrations are slowing delivery or creating operational risk.
- You need architecture leadership that remains close to implementation.
- Your team needs additional engineering capacity with relevant FinTech context.
First step
Start with a 30-minute conversation
Discuss your current priorities, challenges and goals. We’ll use the conversation to understand the context, determine whether the Architecture & Delivery Assessment is appropriate and identify the best next step.
Yes, let’s talk
30-minute introductory conversation. No obligation.
A structured next step
FinTech Platform Architecture & Delivery Assessment
A focused, founder-led engagement to reduce uncertainty before committing to a larger platform initiative.
We examine trading and investment workflows, market and partner integrations, multi-market architecture, scalability and post-trade constraints.
01
Assess
Align on the business objective and build a clear view of the current platform, constraints and delivery risks.
02
Prioritise
Identify the improvements and quick wins that matter most.
03
Plan
Turn the findings into a practical path for implementation.
What are you building or improving?
Share a little about your platform and what you want to improve.