Steve cook
CTO - Chief Technology Officer at FORM3
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve cook is a seasoned commercial CTO with over 30 years in engineering leadership and more than 15 years in C-level technology roles, currently leading Form3’s cloud-native payments platform from London. He combines deep fintech domain expertise—spanning interbank payments, market making, and low-latency trading systems—with hands-on experience in building resilient microservices, Kubernetes, Vault, Linkerd and infrastructure-as-code. Previously he has run technology and product teams across APAC and EMEA, founded cloud and trading startups, and operated as a prop trader, giving him a rare blend of product, ops and trading instincts. Steve is comfortable scaling fully remote, multi-national engineering organizations and turning complex financial plumbing into simple REST APIs for customers. His academic background in theoretical physics from Cambridge underpins a quantitative, systems-first approach to architecture and risk.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Intern Brain Research Group, Summer Intern Brain Research Group at The Open UniversityMA Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics), MA Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics) at University of Cambridge
Stackoverflow
3,126reputation
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68answers
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Github Skills (22)
java10
spring-boot10
spring9
mouse9
spring-security8
keyboard8
springframework7
network7
concurrent-collections6
asp-net6
passwords6
proxy6
recovery6
json6
packet6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stevechk/BitMexExcel
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:9 releases, 22 commits, 19 pushes in 1 month
stevechk/jReload
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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