About WindyFin Tech LLC

WindyFin Tech LLC is a solo consulting practice founded by Michael Morgan. Historically, the firm has provided technology consulting services in financial technology and biotechnology sectors.

⚠️ Note: I am not currently accepting new clients. This page serves as a professional portfolio and resume.

Areas of Expertise

DomainDescription
High-Frequency Trading SystemsUltra-low latency C++ trading systems, FPGA-accelerated strategies (sub-microsecond tick-to-order), auto-spreaders, order management
Financial TechnologyFixed income, equities, futures trading infrastructure
Full-Stack DevelopmentPython, C++, distributed systems, real-time data processing
Cloud & InfrastructureAWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC), Docker, Linux server deployment

Past Consulting Work

LanzaTech / TeselaGen Biotechnology (2018)

  • Coordinated technology integration between biotech companies
  • Leveraged AWS services: EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC Networking
  • Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL

Resume & Experience

Michael D. Morgan

HFT Strategy Developer & Full-Stack Engineer

📧 mikmorg@mdmsolutions.org
🔗 LinkedIn | GitHub
📍 Evanston, IL

Professional Summary

High-frequency trading professional with 15+ years of experience building ultra-low latency trading systems. Deep expertise in C++ and Python for real-time financial applications, with a pragmatic approach and strong understanding of the cost of over-engineering. Background spans equities, fixed income, FX, and futures across multiple proprietary trading firms.

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

  • C, C++, Python

Trading Systems

  • FPGA-accelerated strategy design (sub-microsecond tick-to-order)
  • Auto-spreader development & OMS
  • Market data processing (microsecond & sub-microsecond latency)
  • Post-trade analytics & backtesting
  • Wire-to-wire latency analysis

Low-Level Expertise

  • x86 assembly, cacheline optimization
  • Atomics, transactional memory
  • Linux kernel/driver research
  • GDB, Valgrind profiling

Infrastructure

  • Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu), Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis
  • AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC)
  • RouterOS, Xen (PV & HVM)
  • Git, CMake, Linux toolchain

Experience

FX Desk Developer

Eagle Seven — Chicago, IL | June 2018 – Present

  • Part of four-person trading group trading equities, FX futures, and FX cash markets
  • Lead technologist for the group; handle all production strategy development
  • Coordinate team requirements with firm infrastructure
  • Developed various graybox and blackbox strategies actively trading across multiple markets
  • Developed C++ auto-spreader including OMS; profitable operation within two months of hire
  • Coordinated with multiple data providers and brokers as primary consumer
  • Developed and maintained regression & backtesting platform in Python

Software & AWS Consultant

WindyFin Technologies, LLC — Chicago, IL | February 2018 – June 2018

  • Client: LanzaTech (Skokie, IL)
  • Coordinated technology integration between LanzaTech & TeselaGen Biotechnology
  • AWS architecture: EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC Networking
  • Technologies: Python, Flask, Node.js, React, BlueprintJS, Docker, PostgreSQL

Chief Technology Officer

Arc Global Limited — Hong Kong S.A.R. | June 2016 – February 2018

  • Directed technical strategy and development for trading infrastructure based in China
  • Part of acquisition evaluation and execution (Northport USA, LLC)
  • Managed team of three developers with international coordination
  • Networking and server deployment including RouterOS, Xen PV & HVM configurations
  • Technologies: C++, Java, Python, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL

Fixed Income & Equities Desk Developer

Sun Trading — Chicago, IL | May 2012 – June 2016

  • Led engineering integration efforts for Endeavor to Sun transition
  • Led design & development of C++ distributed trading system for Fixed Income and Equities
  • Heavy use of Python, C++, KDB for HFT latency analysis (microsecond-level) and post-trade analytics
  • Introduced FOSS technologies to streamline development workflows
  • Proposed and developed custom risk limits for RV strategy; known as extraordinarily risk-adverse

Sr. Software Developer

Endeavor Trading, LLC — Chicago, IL | March 2011 – May 2012

  • Owned redesign/development of C++ n-leg auto-spread strategy for Fixed Income
  • Implemented market access for BrokerTec
  • Rewrote YTM (yield) algorithm for improved accuracy
  • Part of four-person team taking inoperable trading system (C#/WPF, C++) to production

Sr. Software Developer

Allston Trading, LLC — Chicago, IL | January 2008 – December 2010

  • Developed low latency, concurrent real-time systems processing market data and order flow for global exchanges
  • Developed infrastructure for wire-to-wire latency analysis using MongoDB, numpy, PyGTK
  • Delivered significant improvements in system latencies and throughput
  • Research in hardware alternatives, introduction of new architectural concepts

Internships

  • Dell — PG Linux Team (Summer 2007): Developed Ubuntu remastering utility (DRU), used by Canonical and Dell; added DKMS support for Ubuntu
  • Arxan (Summer 2006): x86 emulator development in C++, network traffic and binary analysis
  • Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc. (Summers 2002–2004): System/network administration, built distributed monitoring system in Perl/Tcl that ran unattended for 10+ years

Education

Purdue University — West Lafayette, IN
B.S. Computer Science (December 2007)
Minor in Philosophy

  • Academic research in distributed file storage systems
  • Focus areas: Security, Cryptography, ECE

Personal Projects & Interests

  • Background originating as EE hobbyist, evolved to software with strong interest in full stack
  • Self-hosted infrastructure: DNS, IPTables, IMAP, DHCP, RAID arrays
  • Low-level OS kernel and driver research
  • Extensive tooling: GDB, Valgrind, Git, PostgreSQL, Emacs, Vim, CMake, vscode