
Robert Cooke
Founder & CTO at 3Forge
Robert Cooke is the Founder and Principal Architect at 3Forge, a New York-based provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. 3Forge has achieved significant growth over the years as a result of increasing demand for its award-winning, web-based browser AMI platform.
Today, AMI is deployed at three of the five largest global banks, and nearly 20 percent of global equities flows through the platform. 3Forge also has provided its services to hedge funds, broker-dealers and other financial services firms. The company is the leading provider of “performance at scale” data management systems.
Robert’s accomplishments have spanned across electronic trading, middle and back office, regulatory reporting, compliance and risk management.
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Robert is a senior information technologist concentrating on the unique challenges faced within the electronic trading world.
He also has been hands-on from requirements gathering, systems architecture and production management. Through building these various front end and back end products, Robert has concentrated on careful data modeling and development paradigms to achieve faster times to market by building and leveraging reusable components.
Before starting 3Forge, Robert served in senior-level positions at Tier One banks JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns and the dark pool Liquidnet.
Robert has an unmatched passion for all things computer science. With over 100,000 hours of software development, his mesmerizing array of accomplishments include the creation of the distributed columnar SQL live-view database, elastic messaging platform, low latency webserver, Cross-language Compiler, web-integrated IDE, remote-debugger and real-time dashboarding/visualization suite. These are all packaged under the 3Forge platform, a company he started in 2011. With offices in NY, London and Singapore his software has gained wide scale adoption at many Tier-1 banks since 2014.
His focus on the inter-relational study of computers, people and data has had a strong influence on how he’s shaped his clear vision for development in the decades ahead. He is a vocal proponent for the study of computer science’s history, the lost art of query planning, number theory and best practices for reusable code and the relationship with open source software.

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Robert Cooke
Founder & CTO at 3Forge
- Tech
- Entrepreneur
- 📍New York, NY
Robert Cooke is the Founder and Principal Architect at 3Forge, a New York-based provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. 3Forge has achieved significant growth over the years as a result of increasing demand for its award-winning, web-based browser AMI platform.
Today, AMI is deployed at three of the five largest global banks, and nearly 20 percent of global equities flows through the platform. 3Forge also has provided its services to hedge funds, broker-dealers and other financial services firms. The company is the leading provider of “performance at scale” data management systems.
Robert’s accomplishments have spanned across electronic trading, middle and back office, regulatory reporting, compliance and risk management.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT:
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Java
-
SQL
-
Software Design
-
IoT
-
Financial Markets Technology challenges
-
High Frequency Trading
-
Data Virtualization and Visualization
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Robert is a senior information technologist concentrating on the unique challenges faced within the electronic trading world.
He also has been hands-on from requirements gathering, systems architecture and production management. Through building these various front end and back end products, Robert has concentrated on careful data modeling and development paradigms to achieve faster times to market by building and leveraging reusable components.
Before starting 3Forge, Robert served in senior-level positions at Tier One banks JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns and the dark pool Liquidnet.
Robert has an unmatched passion for all things computer science. With over 100,000 hours of software development, his mesmerizing array of accomplishments include the creation of the distributed columnar SQL live-view database, elastic messaging platform, low latency webserver, Cross-language Compiler, web-integrated IDE, remote-debugger and real-time dashboarding/visualization suite. These are all packaged under the 3Forge platform, a company he started in 2011. With offices in NY, London and Singapore his software has gained wide scale adoption at many Tier-1 banks since 2014.
His focus on the inter-relational study of computers, people and data has had a strong influence on how he’s shaped his clear vision for development in the decades ahead. He is a vocal proponent for the study of computer science’s history, the lost art of query planning, number theory and best practices for reusable code and the relationship with open source software.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Robert Cooke
Founder & CTO at 3Forge
- 📍New York, NY
- Tech
- Entrepreneur
Robert Cooke is the Founder and Principal Architect at 3Forge, a New York-based provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. 3Forge has achieved significant growth over the years as a result of increasing demand for its award-winning, web-based browser AMI platform.
Today, AMI is deployed at three of the five largest global banks, and nearly 20 percent of global equities flows through the platform. 3Forge also has provided its services to hedge funds, broker-dealers and other financial services firms. The company is the leading provider of “performance at scale” data management systems.
Robert’s accomplishments have spanned across electronic trading, middle and back office, regulatory reporting, compliance and risk management.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT:
-
Java
-
SQL
-
Software Design
-
IoT
-
Financial Markets Technology challenges
-
High Frequency Trading
-
Data Virtualization and Visualization
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Robert is a senior information technologist concentrating on the unique challenges faced within the electronic trading world.
He also has been hands-on from requirements gathering, systems architecture and production management. Through building these various front end and back end products, Robert has concentrated on careful data modeling and development paradigms to achieve faster times to market by building and leveraging reusable components.
Before starting 3Forge, Robert served in senior-level positions at Tier One banks JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns and the dark pool Liquidnet.
Robert has an unmatched passion for all things computer science. With over 100,000 hours of software development, his mesmerizing array of accomplishments include the creation of the distributed columnar SQL live-view database, elastic messaging platform, low latency webserver, Cross-language Compiler, web-integrated IDE, remote-debugger and real-time dashboarding/visualization suite. These are all packaged under the 3Forge platform, a company he started in 2011. With offices in NY, London and Singapore his software has gained wide scale adoption at many Tier-1 banks since 2014.
His focus on the inter-relational study of computers, people and data has had a strong influence on how he’s shaped his clear vision for development in the decades ahead. He is a vocal proponent for the study of computer science’s history, the lost art of query planning, number theory and best practices for reusable code and the relationship with open source software.
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“Over the past 10 years 3forge have developed deep technology with a relentless drive towards solving some of the world’s most complex data problems.”
“For good reason, machine learning has a highly technical focus. But less talked-about challenges lie in managing the human capital and workflows associated with the tech.”
Timeline
Sep 2010 - Present
3Forge
CTO & Founder
Sep 2008 - Sep 2010
Liquidnet
Head of Infrastructure
May 2002 - Sep 2008
Bear Stearns
Head of Infrastructure
Ask me
Hardware is faster than ever, how come my applications are not? |
How does 3forge compare to Low Code & No Code platforms? |
About the lost art of query planning. |
Why every software developer should know both Declarative & Imperative languages. |
Why software shouldn’t be free but it shouldn’t be crazy expensive either. |
How could 3forge AMI be faster than C++? |
How will data become more of an asset than a liability? |
What can be done to address annual IT cost increases - how can we bend the curve? |