By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Every software vendor wants to sell you “real-time data.” It sounds impressive. It implies speed, agility, and cutting-edge technology. But in fund management, is real-time data always necessary? From an engineering perspective,…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin When a fund is small, operational chaos is manageable. The founder knows where the data is. The spreadsheet works. The compliance officer can manually check the numbers. But as a fund grows…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin “Can you show me where this number came from?” That question — asked by a regulator, an auditor, or an internal compliance officer — is the moment where most fund operations teams…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Every vendor in fund operations claims to be “AI-powered” in 2026. Most of them are using the term loosely. Some are using it dishonestly. As a data engineer who has built AI-enabled…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin When fund managers talk about compliance breaches, they usually talk about fines. That’s the visible cost. It’s also the smallest one. I’ve spent 16 years building data systems in regulated environments. In…