Kirk Wylie

Current

• CEO, CTO, Co-Founder at OpenGamma

Past

• Contractor at Morgan Stanley
• Associate Director, Front Office Technology at KBC Financial Products
• Principal Engineer at Smartspread Ltd.

• Senior Software Engineer at M7 Corporation
• Senior Contractor at Talking Blocks
• CTO, Co-Founder at Radik Software
• Software Engineer at BEA Systems
• Software Engineer at Broadbase Software

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley

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Industry

Computer Software

Kirk Wylie’s Summary

Passionate technologist comfortable building technology for its own sake as well as applying technology to business problems. I believe in software craftsmanship and the power that small teams have to achieve large successes.

Kirk Wylie’s Specialties:

Large-scale systems involving large amounts of data, both live and archival.
Financial data systems (market data, trading data, risk data).
Java, J2EE, C++, SQL, C#/.Net.

Kirk Wylie’s Experience

• CEO, CTO, Co-Founder

  OpenGamma

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Currently stealth-mode financial services software startup.

• Contractor

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; MS; Financial Services industry)

  February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

  Added support for trading Stock Loans to an existing Repo-trading system for the financing technology team.
  Led the modernization of the existing code base from proprietary, in-house libraries to modern Open Source technologies and methodologies.

• Associate Director, Front Office Technology

  KBC Financial Products

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  August 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 5 months)

  Did first-generation design and implementation for a service oriented system to support pre-trade analysis and trade execution for the structured credit (Synthetic CDO^2) line of business.
  Designed and partially implemented a cross-application, cross-language framework for developing and integrating distributed systems, to connect multiple trading and pre-trade systems.
  Developed a system for live market data and live analytics to span all Front Office applications.
  Acted as consulting architect on a variety of business-facing Front Office applications.

• Principal Engineer

  Smartspread Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Banking industry)

  June 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  In charge of all data-related development, including database development and live market data. In addition, responsible for architecting and developing the trade analysis and risk management platform which covered all positions held directly or indirectly by the hedge fund management group. Smartspread is the trading tools and risk management development group for Vega Asset Management and ProximAlfa (a joint venture between Vega and BBVA).

• Senior Software Engineer

  M7 Corporation

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; BEAS; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  In charge of database integration components of custom application development platform. Then led Struts integration in M7 NitroX product line. M7 has since been acquired by BEA Systems.

• Senior Contractor

  Talking Blocks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

  Wrote XML Digital Signatures support in the Talking Blocks product. Talking Blocks has since been acquired by Hewlett Packard.

• CTO, Co-Founder

  Radik Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 3 months)

  Founder and in charge of all technical direction and development. Developed significant parts of software and built engineering group from scratch. One of founding team that raised one angel round of funding and one institutional round of funding.

• Software Engineer

  BEA Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BEAS; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — February 2000 (9 months)

  Wrote the EJB 2.1 CMP implementation for WebLogic Server 5.1

• Software Engineer

  Broadbase Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; KANA.PK; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

  Wrote significant parts of the Broadbase database engine, including query optimization and execution code. Broadbase had a successful IPO, and merged with Kana Corporation (its current name).

Kirk Wylie’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.S. , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , 1994 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  President of Mu Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity, Student Director of Cal Speech and Debate Team, Did undergraduate research under Prof. Stonebraker and Hellerstein in the Database Research Group