About Gordian Labs
Gordian Labs is a software consulting and product development firm specializing in finance and startup industries. We were founded by five industry veterans committed to building great software, compelling products, and top-notch teams. Our mission is to work with top companies and assist in the creation of superior software from research and brainstorming through production to customer service.
The Gordian Labs team has a 10 year proven track record of delivering production enterprise applications in various domain spaces spanning retail/e-commerce, logistics, e-learning, geo-aware apps, collaboration software, and specifically, financial technology. In their most recent engagement Gordian Labs delivered several successful releases of a financial markets knowledge management application to a top 2 financial news company. This product is currently in beta release and both embraces new, low cost technologies (mysql, apache/php, ajax) as well as integrating with legacy applications in their product suite.
Several of the Gordian Labs principals were key architects and engineers in creating the Finaplex Wealth Management platform, a J2EE enterprise web application (weblogic, oracle) that performed data consolidation, portfolio accounting, trading, and investment reporting. We played a leadership role in this product from a small startup to successful production release with proven ROI at several top 10 investment, super-regional, and private banks. Our responsibilities included everything from CTO sales to interface design to application business logic to data model creation to professional services integration.
Principals of Gordian Labs have also had leadership roles in architectural, strategic, management, and technical efforts at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We managed the successful, on-time roll-out of the EOS Enhanced Eurodollar Options System, led a complete refactor of the FirmSoft order status tool, and performed strategic analysis for new product development. With UBS and Parlano we had a major role in the creation of an industry leading chat and collaboration application focused on investment banking professionals. We also wrote many of the first web applications at what is now UBS and several later applications for Wells Fargo, Brinson Partners, Cisco Systems and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Gordian Labs embraces a variety of project management and development styles, tailoring our approach to the project, people, and priorities at hand. We have experience with classical, XP, Agile, TDD, and other methodologies. Gordian has worked with off shoring for development and testing with partners in India, Russia, and South-east Asia.
For more information, please contact us at info@gordianlabs.com.
About the Gordian Labs Name
The name Gordian Labs comes from the legend of the Gordian Knot, an impossible problem solved by an innovative solution. Alexander the Great cleaved the Gordian Knot and went on to fulfill a prophecy of great things. We strive to solve seemingly impossible software problems with innovative software solutions and turn them into products that create a legacy of great things for our clients.