faster.

Enabling software development teams in Capital Markets
to build high-performance user-facing systems
up to 10x faster

About Us

We are enabling software development teams in Capital Markets to build high-performance user-facing systems up to 10x faster.

The Velox full-stack application development platform (vCore) provides professional developers with tools that amplify their expertise in Java and Web programming, allowing them to focus on building differentiating business functionality.

Proprietary High Performance Web Application Container

Designed to deliver the responsiveness that front-office demands, across thousands of concurrent users.

Proprietary Data Streaming Technology

"Data-in-motion" paradigm, gives you up-to-date transactional and streaming data, when you need it, where you need it

A Mature, Hardened, Highly Scalable Platform

Avoid the pain of new code. The vCore platform has been in production for 5 years. Supports millions of transactions, and UI update rates of 1000's of times per second...

A Full-stack "Low-code" Accelerator for Developers

Tailored low-code techniques that give your developers maximum acceleration with minimum limitation, across back and front-end

An Environment Your Developers Will Want to Work In

vCore helps developers solve the problems unique to capital markets, faster in an environment that magnifies their programming skills

By the Numbers

Velox CORE is designed to build user-facing systems that demand high-end performance across many dimensions. Here are some of the key statistics that demonstrate the non-functional operating window.

100 MM

rows in a Velox table

10 k

updates per seconds

100 k

concurrent browser sessions

5 ms.

to pivot a 1MM row grid

> 100

grids in a single user session

10x

faster than inhouse builds

< 100

lines of code to build an app.

Full-stack platform

5 yrs.

success in production client envs.

> 250

simultaneous API’s and data sources

5 Business Problems vCore Can #buildfaster

A strength of vCORE is its versatility, it is effective at accelerating any projects and also as a general-purpose tool for increasing the productivity of both large and small development teams.

Increasing the Productivity of Development Teams

Being data domain agnostic and full-stack allows our clients to accelerate development teams with one tool

Building Full-stack Trading Systems

Gives the best of both worlds, BUY what's common while retaining the ability to BUILD what differentiates you

Responsive User Experience in a Browser

Provides a high-performance web stack, without needing to retool with web tech skillsets

Kick-starting innovation in a Legacy Environment

Enables interoperability between backend servers and provides a platform for building new functionality

Harnessing the Power of Your Rich Data Assets

Centralizes data and API's and accelerates the build of apps that aggregate, analyze & act on data

Velox Takes Care of the Core so you #buildfaster

Despite all the technology innovation in the last 20 years, the way high-performance user-facing systems are built in the enterprise, has not changed. vCore addresses this by equipping teams with the specialized technology they need to unlock that untapped productivity.

Developers Are in Demand but Face Headwinds

Tech debt has built up and budgets, talent are hard to find, while the demand for software grows. "Software has eaten the world" and now every business needs to become data-driven.

Stop Wasting Time on Low-level Coding

No more wrangling disconnected real-time and static data sources and API's, standing up scalable, testable, and supportable backends and finessing bespoke visual components.

Start Building Differentiating Business Features Faster

vCore equips professional development teams with specialized tools enabling them to unlock untapped productivity and build data-driven systems up to 10x faster.

The Team

Expert leadership team from both the IB technology field and vendors

CEO

Jon Butler

Jon began his career building Index Arbitrage systems in the late 90’s. A former Goldman Sachs MD, he managed Equity Tech at GS and Markets Tech at RBS

President

Jason Yan

Jason spent 20 years building mission critical trading systems. He was a technology fellow at GS and the Head of Trading Tech at BAML

CTO

Govind Jajoo

Govind has extensive software development & architecture experience, building global trading systems at BAML and UBS. He started coding professionally at the age of 15 as a Software Engineer intern at Microsoft and completed his MS in CS at the age of 18

COO

Alison Hood

Alison has 30 years of global experience in technology business management and transformational change across the financial services industry

Russell Barton

In memory of Russell Barton, colleague, friend, and thoroughly decent chap who passed away in November 2021

Principal Software Engineer

Xinchao Zhang

Xinchao has extensive hands-on experience with designing and building global trading platforms. He started in UBS and moved on to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, working on the entire front-to-back stack of their core cash/portfolio OMS systems