A founder-led boutique that advises on and builds AI-driven trading systems, low-latency cloud and decision intelligence for hedge funds, asset managers, prop firms and bank trading desks.
Strategy work that ships into code — never into a slide-deck graveyard. Pick the entry point that matches where you are today.
Senior, independent judgment on technology, AI and capital-allocation strategy — to de-risk a decision before you commit budget and engineering time.
Production engineering with the same hands that wrote the strategy.
RocketEdge ships categories before they have names: a published playbook for AI trading, Marketplace-ready Azure products, Signal as a Service, and reliability engineering for broker connectivity.
RocketEdge starts as a Swiss engineering boutique for trading and cloud systems; today headquartered in Singapore with a New York subsidiary.
Hands-On Financial Trading with Python, with Sourav Ghosh: fourteen implemented strategies and the Python backtesting toolchain.
Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect, and AWS, with Ernest Chan and Jared Broad: 20+ worked AI strategies with full code.
Joined Microsoft ISV Success — now a Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace Premium Partner with Marketplace-ready Azure products.
MultiEdge Signal Relay goes live: auditable, post-quantum-sealed signal distribution for funds and their subscribers — not execution.
BrokerSRE for Interactive Brokers: 174-rule scored audit, fixed-price deploy into your Azure tenant, monthly run.
The systems that move money, manage risk, and turn data into decisions — strategy first, then production code.
Independent, board-level counsel on the decisions that compound for 12–24 months: where to invest in technology, data and AI; which architecture and cloud to commit to; build-versus-buy; vendor and platform selection; and how to sequence execution. Written recommendations and board-ready roadmaps — from the people who then build it.
Hardened, autoscaling AWS and Azure architectures with zero-trust controls and continuous cost guardrails — 25–60% cost reduction in weeks, not months.
Idea → backtest → live in a single sprint. Sub-millisecond paths, reproducible research, deterministic risk checks, audit trails, and kill-switches.
Unified store for positions, risk, and market signals with predictive analytics — cutting time-to-decision from days to minutes for the desk and the board.
Low-latency multi-venue pipelines with normalization, factor engineering, and anomaly detection on one schema shared by research, backtest, and production.
Anomaly and fraud models calibrated to your patterns, with continuous monitoring, automated controls, and immutable audit trails wired into playbooks.
Prompt to production-grade assistants and research summarization, built with access controls, evaluation harnesses, cost governance, and human handoff.
Not generic “solutions.” Each offering maps to a business-critical outcome: lower cost, faster time-to-market, better decisions, or safer operations.
A fixed-scope diagnostic and re-architecture of your AWS/Azure trading and research estate — right-sizing, spot strategy, data-tiering, and continuous cost guardrails that hold after we leave.
Reduced a fund’s cloud expenses by ~30% while doubling backtest throughput — savings that paid for the engagement many times over.
From research notebook to live, governed signal: alpha research, feature engineering, model validation, and deployment with reproducible pipelines and deterministic risk checks.
Took a strategy from idea to live trading in a single sprint, with audit trails and kill-switches institutional allocators expect.
Sub-millisecond execution paths, zero-trust controls, CI/CD, and SRE-style observability — replacing fragile, hand-managed stacks with production-grade, monitored systems. For desks trading through Interactive Brokers, this is now a fixed-price service: BrokerSRE for Interactive Brokers.
Re-platformed a fund’s execution stack to < 1 ms hot-path latency with 24×7 monitoring and one-click, repeatable deploys.
Senior architecture review and build guidance for fintech and AI-finance startups shipping data, GenAI, and decision-intelligence products — security, cost, and scale designed in from day one.
Helped a data-science firm ship a production-grade AI platform with enterprise security and cost governance, avoiding a costly re-build later.
Offshore outsourcing firms compete on cheap hourly labor. RocketEdge competes on specialized outcomes in the areas that decide your P&L — alpha, risk, latency, and cloud cost. Almost no offshore firm, and very few boutiques, can claim two published trading books plus dual-cloud delivery plus CFA & FRM. Here is the difference you actually buy.
| RocketEdge — boutique fintech expert | Low-cost offshore outsourcers |
|---|---|
| Deep trading & AI domain expertise — wrote the book, runs it for real funds | General development skills, lacking finance specialization |
| Proven, ROI-focused results — cost savings, speed, and alpha improvements | Low hourly rates with no guaranteed outcomes |
| Single senior point of contact — 20+ years of experience, no handoffs | Junior, rotating teams; higher management overhead for the client |
| Trusted-partner mindset — invested in your long-term strategy | Transactional approach; little stake in your outcomes |
| Flexibility & personal dedication — tailored to your schedule and needs | Rigid, one-size-fits-all processes |
| Seamless integration with your team — contextual knowledge of your trading environment | Knowledge gaps about finance-specific requirements |
The math is simple: a ~30% cloud-cost reduction or a strategy that reaches production a sprint sooner is worth far more than a lower hourly rate. RocketEdge is priced as a high-impact partner because the work directly grows AUM and protects profitability — and it filters for clients who value quality and trust over bargain-hunting.
Jiri Pik is the founder and CEO of RocketEdge — a financial strategist and cloud software architect who has spent two decades building ultra-low-latency, distributed systems for trading, risk management, and market data at Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and UBS. He founded RocketEdge in Switzerland in 2016 and now leads it from Singapore.
He is the author of Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect and AWS (Wiley, 2025) and Hands-On Financial Trading with Python (Packt, 2021), and serves as Co-Chair of the Tech Transformation Resource Group at the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, helping shape pragmatic digital strategy across industries.
Why this matters: most cloud consultancies have never traded, and most quant shops have never operated a regulated cloud estate. Financial rigor and platform engineering in the same brain is rare — and it’s why RocketEdge moves from idea to production faster than typical vendor cycles.
RocketEdge works within business and technology ecosystems that connect market needs, enterprise platforms, and practical transformation.
A member firm, with CEO Jiri Pik serving as Co-Chair of the Chamber’s Tech Transformation Resource Group.
RocketEdge.com is a Premium Partner in Microsoft’s Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace program — aligned with the Azure and GitHub toolchain and Microsoft Marketplace pathways.
RocketEdge works best when the mandate requires senior judgment, hands-on architecture, and measurable business outcomes — design to deploy to monitor.
A small, senior team at the intersection of AI, cloud, and trading — with institutional pedigree and published authorship.
A 30-minute architecture review with Jiri is free. You’ll leave with a one-page diagnostic and at least two concrete options — whether or not we end up working together.
RocketEdge.com Pte. Ltd. · Singapore · with a New York subsidiary serving North America. Founded in Switzerland in 2016.