Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
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Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
As financial markets, new asset classes, and regulations become ever more complex, so does the management of the trade lifecycle. Whether you’re faced with the challenges of managing market data to nourish the research process to make crucial investment decisions, trading new asset classes or have latency requirements, or the need to streamline your post-trade processes, the right technology is needed to make faster and smarter decisions. Firms today need to deliver proactive, data-driven solutions to navigate an evolving landscape efficiently.
Explore these challenges and learn how to achieve your firm’s goals at the "Modernizing the Trade Lifecycle with AWS" event – featuring speakers from Fidelity, Vanguard, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, Broadridge, and KX, as well as capital markets firms, partners, and AWS industry experts. This in-person, exclusive event will take place in AWS's NY City office at 7 West 34th Street. Lunch will be served and there will be an opportunity for networking during happy hour.
Learn how Fidelity Investments leverages AWS and hosts its Market Data feeds and provides data for US/International Equities (Level1/2/3), Options, ETFs, Digital coin pricing, Historical pricing intraday, market stats from 150 domestic and international markets and venues, and processes 20k request/response TPS with 50M updates/sec to external streaming customers.
Vanguard’s equity trading office processes 200k trades valued around $110b per week using an internally developed monolithic system on-prem to route orders between different front office systems. Portfolio managers must ensure Vanguard's funds closely track their benchmarks, so the availability and performance of this system is critical. Since 2021, the Vanguard IT team has rebuilt the monolith system as a microservices-based application running on AWS. Learn how Vanguard's portfolio managers now trade faster to improve fund performance at lower cost with better resiliency.
Learn how AWS partners are modernizing trading systems in the cloud and how trading firms can streamline their processing to virtualize physical platforms in the cloud and break up larger on premises applications into smaller more efficient components that are cloud-enabled and interoperable with hybrid environments.
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