Upgrading In-House Solution with Linux Red Hat 8
Caspian One was engaged by a leading media services provider to upgrade their in-house scheduling software to Linux Red Hat 8 and migrate Puppet code within a two-month deadline. By assembling a team of specialist Linux and DevOps engineers, we delivered the project at a fixed price, ensuring the solution was fully upgraded on time, with regular updates and transparent communication throughout the process.
Expanding a Remote Production Facility
A nationwide OB service provider needed to expand their remote production facility by attaining Junior Project Engineers. Caspian One tapped into their market knowledge and network, approaching universities for referrals and identifying resources from recently liquidated companies. The client successfully acquired two Junior Project Engineers, who have since increased both the capacity and quality of the provider’s productions.
DevOps POD Build for Digital Asset Management Firm
Caspian One supported a Hong Kong-based digital asset management firm in scaling a DevOps team in London to build their core platform, implement monitoring and logging, and enhance automation. Starting with the appointment of a new Managing Director of DevOps, we rapidly sourced and built a team of eight skilled professionals.
Dynamics and Power Platform SME Placement
A global investment management firm sought to expand their Enterprise Solutions team with a Dynamics 365 and Power Platform expert. They partnered with Caspian One, who quickly sourced and placed a highly skilled consultant. This expert helped the firm enhance reporting, automate processes, and empower their business units to become more self-sufficient, driving innovation across the organisation.
Keeping DevOps and Engineering on Track for a Global Reinsurance Firm
Caspian One partnered with a leading global reinsurance firm to deliver managed services across Azure DevOps and Cloud Engineering. Faced with IR35 concerns and internal restructuring, Caspian One adapted the existing team to maintain compliance while continuing to deliver on key infrastructure projects. Their expert management ensured consistent progress and valuable outcomes, despite the firm’s shifting priorities.
Fortifying IT Security for a Leading Canadian Bank
In early 2024, we revamped the outdated IT security systems of a major Canadian bank. Our expert team upgraded data transfers from FTP to SFTP and resolved critical security vulnerabilities. By January 2025, the project will have eliminated all critical security risks and threats for the bank.
Optimising Trading Risk Technology for a Leading Investment Bank
For nearly a decade, Caspian One has partnered with a top American investment bank to provide complex trading technology services. In 2022, we secured a critical Risk Viewer project by outshining nine other vendors. Our team enhanced the platform's performance, ensuring a smoother trading process and demonstrating our commitment to quality and cost-effectiveness.
Building Global Broadcast Teams with Niche Expertise
In 2017, we began working with a global broadcast company to fill critical roles in North America and Europe. Our structured approach and efficient communication led to successful hires and a strengthened long-term partnership, showcasing our ability to support global specialist skills acquisition.
Driving High-Performance Time-Series Analytics
We optimised a partner's PySpark benchmark and developed PyKX-based Spark examples, achieving a 10x performance improvement in time-series analytics and reducing TCO, enabling the partner to showcase significant efficiency gains.
Securing C-Suite Leadership for Public Broadcasting
Gibraltar’s public broadcaster needed a new Chief Engineering Technology Officer but faced local skills shortages and COVID-19 challenges. Caspian One leveraged its global network and thorough vetting process to find the right expertise, ensuring a successful hire despite the complexities.
Rescuing a Global Transaction Monitoring Platform for Real-Time Risk Management
A leading German investment bank turned to Caspian One to save a high-stakes, £66 million global transaction monitoring platform that had been failing for over two years. Within three months, Caspian One's team was able to deliver initial ROI by capturing and reporting on 80% of GTB risk data.
Bringing State-of-the-Art Prime Brokerage to the US Market
Caspian One collaborated to build a new system for a bank's Global Prime Brokerage business. This 5-year initiative focused on development, automation, and database optimisation while integrating multiple vendor systems and migrating the current Canadian platform, ensuring seamless integration and improved efficiency.
Libor Transition: Enabling Stability Through Financial Change
A prominent financial institution in Canada proactively tackled the Libor transition through a multi-year program led by an expert Program Manager. This initiative developed strategic plans, updated and digitized 50,000+ systems, and remediated documentation, ensuring a smooth transition.
EFX Market Making
From April 2022 to March 2023, we enhanced the EFX market making and algorithmic trading systems of a Canadian financial institution. Key components included the EFX pricing farm architecture, KDB flow control, static spread control nodes, and a robust UI, boosting efficiency and competitiveness.
Advanced Trading Systems for Ecommodities
In April 2021, we developed advanced trading systems for Ecommodities, delivering key components such as a tradable Passive Sniper Strategy UI, enhanced OMS entitlement validation, and upgraded kdb adaptors for real-time analytics. By March 2022, these advancements ensured improved trading capabilities and operational efficiency.
EFX Platform Decommissioning
In 2020, we assisted a European Investment Bank in decommissioning its legacy eFX platform and transitioning to a microservices architecture. The project involved developing a low latency pricing, hedging, and trading stack, and enhancing the Single Dealer Platform, improving planning and governance processes.
Lead technical Trainer
A leading broadcast technology training provider needed a Lead Technical Trainer with broadcast-specific skills during the pandemic. Caspian One thoroughly vetted identified experts, providing top-quality options that led to a successful acquisition in January 2021, significantly relieving the client's resource challenges.
Test Lab Infrastructure
We're advancing innovation in telecoms by automating test labs, reducing testing time and boosting efficiency, enabling faster deployment of cutting-edge technologies. In this story, we helped a telecom company modernise their test lab infrastructure by automating processes, improving efficiency and quality in firmware development and testing.
3rd party test automation
We helped a telecom company automate and futureproof their voice testing capabilities by conducting a discovery phase, defining clear milestones, and providing structured project management, ensuring accountability and efficiency.
OSL Exchange Scalability and Stability
Caspian One partnered with a leading IT service provider to improve the scalability and stability of their exchange platform. By delivering solutions that enhanced the scalability of their UI and FIX connectivity, optimising matching engine performance, and improving system supportability, Caspian One resources ensured the platform could handle growing demand and maintain operational efficiency.