Dennis Gonzalez

AI strategy and product,
from the trading desk forward.

Fifteen years building AI and data products in financial services. Came from the desk. Build what I ship.

I started on the trading desk at CSFB, Socimer, and CIBC before moving into technology.

That path matters. Most program and product managers running teams in financial services came from engineering or consulting. I came from the desk. I understand what investment bankers, traders, and portfolio managers actually need from the tools being built for them.

For the past fifteen years I've managed AI and data product delivery, platform transformations, and regulatory tech programs at FactSet, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Asset Management. I'm currently engaged with a leading global PE firm, building LLM-powered tools and agents that compound across the program portfolio.

This site is where I keep my writing, speaking history, and thinking on AI in financial services.

From the notes

Notes on deploying.

Or: on what change management knows about the AI race.

Notes on what you're actually replacing.

Or: on the part of platform migration that lives in people, not systems.

Notes on innovation, and the chat we didn't see coming.

Or: on what I learned from the people who hadn't read the papers.

Notes on the engineer in the room.

Or: what forward-deployed engineering is rediscovering, and what's actually new about it.

Notes on the problem, the framework, and the dollar.

Or: on not picking your tools before you understand the work.

Notes on transformation.

Or: why hard skills got me hired, and curiosity got the work done.

A small number of engagement conversations a year, outside the current work.

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