Interactive Brokers-Focused Development

Reliable Interactive Brokers integrations for trading systems.

Talosian Financial Software helps traders, funds, and software teams build production-grade systems around the Interactive Brokers API.

We design and implement brokerage integrations for market data, order routing, realtime risk reporting, and automated trading workflows.

Former proprietary trading engineering leadership Experience in live trading environments with multimillion dollar portfolios
Interactive Brokers specialization API integration
Production-minded engineering Recovery, observability, and long-running reliability
Java and Linux systems Well suited to backend trading infrastructure

Services

Focused consulting for firms and traders who need custom logic on top of the base IB features.

Build a New IBKR Integration

Design and implementation of Interactive Brokers connectivity for new trading or analytics platforms.

  • Market data ingestion
  • Order routing and status handling
  • Realtime custom risk reports

Stabilize an Existing System

Fix fragile trading infrastructure that suffers from disconnects, unclear failure modes, or difficult operational behavior.

  • Reconnect and restart logic
  • Gateway/TWS session handling
  • Error recovery design
  • Logging and monitoring improvements

Review Architecture and Operations

Technical review of system design, deployment, and production readiness for brokerage-connected software.

  • Code and design review
  • Deployment hardening
  • Operational resilience
  • Risk reduction for live use

Why clients choose Talosian Financial Software

They seek an experienced team to develop custom logic rapidly and with high quality.

Credibility

Talosian Financial Software specializes in the kinds of technical issues that matter in real trading environments: persistent connectivity, safe handling of market data and order events, and long-running automation.

Work is grounded in practical software engineering, with a strong fit for raplid development and deployment, server operations, and the realities of keeping trading-related systems running over time.

Brokerage-specific focus Interactive Brokers integration and operational behavior
Production-minded engineering Built for maintainability, observability, recovery, and clear behavior
Java-friendly implementations A strong fit for JVM-based trading and backend systems
Hands-on troubleshooting Useful for existing systems that are unstable or incomplete

Good fit for

  • Independent traders trading their own book
  • Quantitative researchers moving from prototype to production
  • Small firms needing advanced features but don't have a prime broker
  • Software teams integrating trading capabilities into a broader platform

Representative engagements

  • Build an IBKR-backed trading or monitoring service from scratch
  • Review and harden an existing API integration
  • Improve deployment, observability, and restart behavior
  • Add account, portfolio, or order-management capabilities to an existing product

About the Founder

Founder of Talosian Financial Software. Former trading systems software engineer at DRW.

Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith is the founder of Talosian Financial Software and a software engineer specializing in trading infrastructure and brokerage integration.

He previously worked for proprietary trading firm DRW as a senior software engineer and team lead, where he built a full stack trading system that provided liquidity in European equity index options, S&P 500 options, and FICC products.

Earlier in his career he held engineering and technical leadership roles at companies like Thoughtworks and Charles Schwab, working on large scale financial systems.

Garrett holds an engineering degree from Northwestern University. He has lived and worked in Australia, India, the United Kingdom, and the US.

Who this is for

Talosian Financial Software is best suited for clients who care about correctness, reliability, and practical operation more than flashy front-end features.

Good fit

  • Independent traders building serious internal tools
  • Funds and small firms needing custom IBKR connectivity
  • Teams with an existing system that needs stabilization
  • Projects where reliability matters more than surface polish

Typical project goals

  • Custom realtime risk reports
  • Improve order and market data handling
  • Move from prototype to production
  • Make a trading system easier to operate safely

How engagements work

Most projects start with a focused technical review, followed by implementation or stabilization work.

1

Assessment

Review your existing architecture, requirements, and pain points around IBKR, automation, and deployment.

2

Design

Define a practical plan for connectivity, event handling, recovery, and system boundaries.

3

Implementation

Build new components or improve existing code with an emphasis on clarity and operational resilience.

4

Hardening

Improve observability so the system is easier to monitor in practice.

Let’s talk about your IBKR integration

Talosian Financial Software works with clients who need reliable Interactive Brokers connectivity, better operational behavior, or custom trading-related software built with production concerns in mind.