About The Company Coast Research & Development LLC is a small, independent research and development consultancy specializing in razor-sharp tools for business. With over 30 years of development and industry experience, we can bring you solutions twice as fast as large development houses and at half the cost. Our work is on time and on budget. We have a freelance staff of developers, each with very deep expertise in a different area to bring you the highest quality solution. Our designs are lightweight, do not require runtime environments or interpreters, and will scale effortlessly. We have developed solutions for the financial industry, the investment community, medical and DME; for touch screen input, small devices, and hardware control; for reporting, database, communication, workflow, and legacy codebase management. We've also developed server side and thick client applications, system tools, and web products. We can usually provide a working demo within 24 hours.   Mike has experience working with existing development teams and with mentoring developers, and he's contributed to several open source projects. With a masters degree in aeronautical engineering, he brought advanced mathematical solutions to real-time trading problems for hedge funds in the 1990s and worked with some of the best market gurus to model their techniques with software. Mike contributes to many development forums. He's been among the top 10% of contributors to Stack Overflow, earning over 75 merit badges to date, including Guru, Famous Question, Great Answer, and Teacher. Testimonials
"We approached Coast R&D about implementing a patent pending technology we had conceptualized as
the signature interface for our suite of products. We had
approached at least five well regarded, high-end developers that could not
implement this. Mike worked well with our team to integrate the
technology with our extensive legacy .NET development and suggested ways to
improve our data acquisition, transmission, and storage."
"I would not hesitate to recommend Coast R&D for any programming job, from simple to extremely complex. Our application is rock solid, bullet proof, fast, and was extremely difficult to visualize and create." "Finding someone with the skills in legacy and current coding styles and multiple languages has been a challenge, but Mike has provided very cost effective solutions without any business disruption." "Coast Research and Development has performed a system coding task that we were unable to complete successfully in six months. As a C++ programmer and part of a fund management team, it fell to me to convert our system from a commercial product to a stand alone application. We needed full compatibility, including optimization and reporting. The results had to match exactly for auditing. Mike achieved this in just three weeks. He also threw in a charting user interface so we could see the data, the indicators, and the bar by bar equity."
"Mike developed a Fibonacci-based indicator for us in a few days that works better than some other software we paid over six times as much for. We then asked for additional functionality that he provided very quickly due to the well thought-out and well commented architecture of his code. Mike also suggested ideas for the indicator that helped with the system we are profitably trading."
"We've been working with Coast Research and Development for a while now. We have never been disappointed. The work is very high quality. I would recommend them with no doubt to anyone who needs professional help!"
"I have worked with developers professionally for many years, and Mike from Coast Research is one of the best I've worked with by a wide margin. He is on-time, professional, friendly, but best of all straight to the point. He can anticipate needs and provide solutions that match the environment and the overall project direction."
Without doubt Mike is one of the most professional, talented consultants I have ever worked with, managing to turn complex ideas into well articulated solutions in days and always with an eye to future development. I'd definitely recommend him to anyone looking for a fast, agile solution to complex problems."
"After several months of discussion, confidentiality, and security precautions, Mike was retained to code and develop our proprietary futures trading system for web automation and further optimization. Although successfully traded for 10 years, we wanted to test the validity of changes and new ideas, utilizing the speed and power of open platform back-testing. Over the years we approached several programmers but were told that the system could not be programmed. After a discussion with Mike, he offered to try one of his proprietary functions to solve the main problem in this task. Within a week he had results that clearly indicated he could completely code our system. Over the last three months he has completed the remaining work on schedule. We would highly recommend him for his professionalism, trading ability, and programming skills."
"We would like to highly recommend Coast Research to any institution looking to integrate their financial services with the electronic markets available today. Mike produced a series of easy to understand and operate applications that managed everything from data acquisition and cleaning to trade management. He was able to code our ideas in a way that allows us change and adapt our strategy" "When outsourcing, two important criteria are quality and reliability. Mike has both. He is flexible when it's most needed and always one step ahead. His technical skill is matched by his can-do approach. He always has a suggestion for balancing competing issues of importance in design and implementation." |