Ben Maron

Software development organizations have invested significantly in the Developer Experience (DX): tools, processes, and work environments to increase productivity, collaboration, and happiness of critical talent. But the Engineer Experience (EX) for FPGA teams typically lags that of software teams, even as the number of FPGA engineers on Wall Street continues to grow.

FSI software engineers have long benefited from abundant open-source projects, but firmware engineers still have few good options. This was unsurprising when the developer community was small, but now that FPGA development is widespread in finance and other industries, the time is ripe for change.

FPGA is now a mainstream technology in financial markets, from small firms like prop shops to large organizations like agency brokers. But mainstream does not mean mature.