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Raj Patel

Former CTO · Aurelius Financial Tech

Chicago, IL, US

Scales mission-critical financial systems and the teams behind them, having run engineering for platforms moving billions in transactions.

28+ years experienceEnglish, Gujarati

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28yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What Raj is known for

Raj Patel has spent 28 years building high-stakes financial and payments infrastructure. As CTO of Aurelius Financial Tech he led a 320-person engineering organization running a payments platform that processed over $40B in annual volume at five-nines availability. He drove a multi-year migration off a monolith to a service architecture that cut release cycles from monthly to daily. Earlier he built the core ledger systems at Sterling Clearing. Raj advises fintech founders and boards on scaling regulated systems, technical risk, and building engineering leadership benches that last.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

Fintech architecture High-availability systems Payments infrastructure Engineering leadership Technical risk

Sectors

Fintech Payments

Experience

Chief Technology Officer · Aurelius Financial Tech

2014 — 2024

VP Engineering · Sterling Clearing

2006 — 2014

Ways to work together

15-min intro

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Fintech Architecture Review

$9,500

Independent review of your platform architecture for scale, availability, and regulatory resilience.

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CTO Advisory Call

$1,000 · 60 min

One-hour advisory call on scaling a regulated financial platform or building your engineering leadership bench.

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What people say about Raj

“Raj has forgotten more about payments infrastructure than most CTOs ever learn. His architecture review saved us a year of mistakes.”

EVElena Vargas · Founder & CEO, Cadence Pay

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