Summary
David Gay is a Head of Engineering and seasoned technology executive based in New York with over a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-based systems for financial services. As Head of Engineering at LightPoint Financial Technology and Senior Partner/acting CTO at Eikos Partners, he combines hands-on architecture skills in Big Data/Hadoop, .NET/C#, Java and C++ with practical leadership in Agile/SCRUM delivery. His background spans front-end frameworks (WPF, Silverlight, PRISM, Reactive Framework) to low-latency web push technologies like Kaazing and LightStreamer, making him adept at real-time, high-throughput integrations for hedge fund operations. Known for translating complex integration challenges into reliable production systems, he brings both strategic CTO-level vision and detailed application-architect expertise. An unusual strength is his cross-pollination of legacy desktop UI mastery with modern cloud-native and streaming architectures, enabling smooth migrations and performance-sensitive designs.
10 years of coding experience
English