Startup quant fund acceleration
A nimble quant hedge fund was missing opportunities because its data pipelines and models could not keep pace with the market. Every backtest took an entire trading day. Signal quality drifted as alternative data sources arrived. Analysts were juggling spreadsheets, R scripts, and brittle desktop setups. cloudlogic.dev partnered with the fund to overhaul its data foundations, unlock faster experimentation, and build the muscle to ship new strategies weekly. The challenge The fund’s edge depended on reacting quickly to new signals, yet their toolchain made iteration painfully slow. Eight-hour backtests meant traders went home before results landed. “Dirty data” polluted factors and forced analysts to spend weekends cleaning CSVs. The small engineering team lacked automation and cloud expertise, so infrastructure changes were risky and expensive. Leadership wanted measurable improvements in signal quality, execution speed, and team capability without inflating headcount. ...