01 / The challenge
Start with the operation.
The product needed to evolve from market signals into a dependable trading platform without repeatedly replacing the technical foundation as the roadmap expanded.
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Project Windsock / Case study
The engineering behind a real-time market platform.
End-to-end technical ownership across real-time market data, signal processing, alerts, paper trading, brokerage integration and the public-facing product experience.
- Organisation
- Project Windsock
- Operational context
- Financial software
- Key capabilities
- Real-time data · Alpaca Markets · Paper trading · WebSockets
02 / The work
Build around the real requirements.
Prism owns the technical direction across the stack: application architecture, market-data ingestion, signal processing, background infrastructure, APIs, database design, paper-trading workflows, brokerage connectivity and the client experience.
Project WindsockWorkflow overview
From market signal to paper trade.
Live market dataSignal processingPaper trading
Real-time platform engineering
03 / The result
A system that can keep evolving.
Windsock now has a platform capable of supporting system-wide paper trading and continued brokerage integration, with one technical owner able to drive the roadmap as the product grows.
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