David Budworth is chief technology officer of Apex Fintech Solutions. Before Apex his published employers include OptionsHouse, Spark Networks, PEAK6 Capital Management, and E-Loan.
OptionsHouse and PEAK6
He was CTO and an original member of OptionsHouse, the online options and equity brokerage later sold to General Atlantic in 2014. At PEAK6 he worked as a software architect and led work on trading-platform technology and related R&D projects.
OptionsHouse scale
A former OptionsHouse colleague’s published recommendation says that before the 2014 General Atlantic sale OptionsHouse served about 80,000 customers, and credits Budworth with building the trading technology end to end.
OptionsHouse architecture
OptionsHouse was built as an API using a service-oriented architecture for retail options and equity traders, .