What We Solve

Win microseconds. Control p99.9. Stay deterministic.

We design, audit, and rebuild trading infrastructure for teams competing at microsecond precision.

We fix jitter, queues, packet drops, recovery gaps, protocol edge cases, and observability blind spots.

  • Tail latency p99.9 kills PnL even when p50 looks great
  • Jitter from non-deterministic execution paths
  • Packet loss during volatility spikes
  • Microbursts overflow buffers and amplify latency
  • Feed gaps, replay inconsistency, broken recovery
  • Protocol complexity: ITCH, OUCH, FIX, native APIs, throttles
  • Risk vs latency: safety checks adding unpredictable delay
  • Missing visibility: no NIC to kernel to userspace breakdown when the wrong spike hits

If you cannot measure it precisely, you cannot optimize it.

What You Get

  • Deterministic execution with tight variance control
  • Tick-to-trade pipeline optimized for p99.9, not averages
  • Order routing with recovery logic, throttling, and failover
  • Market data engines: feed handlers, parsers, order book builders
  • Latency observability: heatmaps, tracing, deterministic replay, and reproducible benchmarking

Stack and Capabilities

Networking and Kernel Bypass

  • DPDK, zero-copy RX/TX, lock-free rings
  • XDP, AF_XDP fast paths
  • RSS, flow steering, NIC tuning
  • Microburst mitigation, queue discipline, buffer strategy

Time and Latency Measurement

  • PTP synchronization and clock discipline
  • Hardware NIC timestamping
  • SO_TIMESTAMPING and end-to-end breakdown
  • p50, p99, p99.9 tail analytics

Market Data and Protocols

  • Feed handlers, normalizers, binary parsers
  • Order book builders, gap recovery, replay
  • ITCH, OUCH, FIX, native exchange APIs
  • SBE and custom binary codecs

Execution Engines

  • C++ and Rust, deterministic state machines
  • NUMA-aware design, CPU affinity, memory pinning
  • Cache line alignment, huge pages
  • Inline ASM only where it pays off

Reliability Under Volatility

  • Backpressure design, load shedding, stable recovery
  • Kill switch, limits, pre-trade risk without chaos
  • Deterministic failover, warm standby patterns
  • Incident-grade diagnostics and test harnesses

Hardware Acceleration

  • FPGA deterministic paths, ROI-driven
  • Wire-to-decision optimization
  • CPU plus FPGA co-design without over-engineering
  • Targeted acceleration: parse, filter, risk, route

Why Teams Move Fast

Senior engineers. Clear next steps. Work built for systems that carry real pressure.

Personal data is handled with clear discipline across GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, and DPA/SCC expectations where applicable.

Senior Access

Speak with engineers who can inspect, decide, and execute.

Usable First Step

Reviews, priorities, scope, and next moves your team can use right away.

Built for Pressure

AI, systems, security, native software, and low-latency infrastructure.

Delivery Senior-led Direct technical communication
Coverage AI, systems, security One team across the stack
Markets Europe, US, Singapore Clients across key engineering hubs
Personal data Privacy-disciplined GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, DPA/SCC-aware

Start with the system, the pressure, and the decision ahead. We shape the next move from there.

Contact

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A few clear lines are enough. Describe the system, the pressure, and the decision that is blocked. Or write directly to midgard@stofu.io.

01 What the system does
02 What hurts now
03 What decision is blocked
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