Founder Profile – Rolando Rivera

Title: Founder & Principal, Fintech Trades

Location: United States​

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About Rolando

Rolando Rivera is the founder of Fintech Trades, a computational finance research initiative focused on systematic market analysis, quantitative modeling, and the architecture of financial systems. He brings decades of experience at the intersection of advanced technology and financial problem-solving, with a career that spans technology innovation, analytical model development, and strategic infrastructure design.​

 

Rolando’s work bridges disciplines—melding computational reasoning, rigorous analytical thinking, and practical systems design to explore how technology can deepen our understanding of financial markets.   His research emphasizes clarity through structure, transforming intuition into measurable logic that can be examined, tested, and refined.​

 

Professional Experience​​

Founder & Principal — Fintech Trades (2024 – Present)

Rolando founded Fintech Trades to advance computational finance research, focusing on systematic market analysis, quantitative model development, and financial infrastructure design. His work translates complex financial intuition into explicit analytical frameworks, articulating the logic behind models and supporting discourse at the intersection of finance, technology, and risk. This role combines research leadership, model conception, and strategic thinking to explore market behavior without promoting specific investment products.

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Quantitative Research & Model Development (Independent Projects)

For the past three years, Rolando engaged in independent quantitative research, building and refining:​

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• Systematic equity selection frameworks

• Benchmark comparisons and regime analysis methodologies

• Computational models with disciplined parameterization and risk controls

• Exploratory workflows for performance evaluation

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This body of work served as a bridge between conceptual model ideas and practical testable structure, and underpins the research ethos at Fintech Trades.​

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​Client Executive, Systems Engineer, and US Industry Delegate to NATO

U.S. Defense Technology Sector — (1993 - 2022)

Rolando spent a significant portion of his career designing and delivering advanced technology solutions for U.S. Armed Forces programs, leading teams and collaborating with cross-disciplinary engineering, data, and mission partners. His work in this capacity involved:

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• Systems architecture and integration for complex operational environments

• Analytical support to decision makers

• Coordinating multi-stakeholder solutions under strict performance and reliability requirements

• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to interdisciplinary teams

 

This experience grounded his understanding of large-scale system design, data integrity, and resilient infrastructure, which now informs his thinking on scalable computational finance platforms.​

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