Steve Powell

Background

About Steve Powell

Fueled by a unique background of hands-on technical, product and business experience, I generate creative, innovative and straight-forward solutions to real-world technical challenges while applying solid but simple and supportable principles across all roles. Extensive experience in full-stack: complex, multi-platform solutions, object-oriented and procedural programming, hard real-time development and high-availability designs within a multi-server environment. Demonstrated record of success in management, development and architectural roles; frequently called upon as a mentor to team members in design and development. • Co-Architect of LIFFE, a London-based Futures exchange as part of a partnership with Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), and Euronext • Co-architect and developer of one of the first real-time trading systems (“Order Routing”) to transmit order data between pits, traders, member firms, and clearing for CBOT • Designer and adopter of early trading transmission rules including publish/subscribe, clustering, forward relay, single-instance, fire-and-forget, and persistence types within the electronic trading paradigm; these are now standard messaging techniques • Rewrote Northwest Airlines boarding recording system resulting in a yearly savings of over $20 million • Full-Stack (end-to-end: backend, middleware, front-end) architecture and development utilizing a broad array of technology frameworks, languages and platforms (tech stacks) across diverse industries: Defense, Finance/Stock/Fintech, Hotel, Retail, Supply Chain, Health & Medical, 3D Modeling CAD/CAE