Riko Eksteen
Head Of Academy at Adaptive Financial Consulting
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRiko Eksteen is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Academy at Adaptive Financial Consulting, bringing over 20 years' domain experience and 12 years in progressive industry roles to learning, delivery and product-focused change. He designs and runs Adaptive’s bi-annual Early Careers Programme—training full-stack developers across London, Barcelona, New York and Montreal with a focus on social mobility and practical fintech skills. Technically versatile, Riko has shipped front-end and back-end systems across React/TypeScript, Java/Spring and .NET, led desktop interoperability standards as FDC3 chair, and contributed to Adaptive’s ReactiveTraderCloud real-time FX client. He combines hands-on engineering (from WPF trading desks to micro-frontends and Symphony/OpenFin integrations) with curriculum design and talent development, ensuring new engineers are production-ready. A recognised industry speaker and advisor on smart desktop ecosystems, he blends product, governance and delivery perspectives to drive platform adoption. Outside work he’s an avid board-game collector—an indicator of his taste for complex systems and thoughtful play.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hons. B.Sc. Computer Science, Hons. B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Cape TownB.Comm. Mathematics Computer Science, B.Comm. Mathematics Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
openfin8
pwapp7
finance7
nuget6
ado-net6
winforms6
dictionary6
visual-studio6
sorting6
linq6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AdaptiveConsulting/ReactiveTraderCloud
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Real-time FX trading showcase by Adaptive.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 58 reviews, 354 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Riko primarily contributed to the front-end development of the ReactiveTraderCloud application, focusing on the integration and adaptation of the platform to the Symphony platform. Their work involved fixing issues related to share callbacks and currency pair handling within the Symphony integration. The user also addressed build and security vulnerabilities and upgraded dependencies, improving the application's overall stability.
adaptiveexpresspwafinancereactjs
rikoe/ReactiveTraderCloud
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Real-time trading platform demo showcasing reactive programming principles applied across the full application stack.
Contributions:46 pushes, 118 branches, 49 tags in 2 years
real-timereactprinciplesfull-applicationtrading
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