Avery Armstrong

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Managing Director at Lighthouse Data · Financial services strategy · payments, due diligence

Lighthouse Data
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
University of Michigan
English
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Overview

Currently at Lighthouse Data, where I lead financial services strategy with a team of 15. Designed the operating model for a 5 thousand-person transformation. Before that: Intel and Oracle. Most at home with due diligence and banking strategy.

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Skills
regulationdue diligencepaymentsbanking strategy
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Building out financial services at Lighthouse Data: consultants wanted in Boston

Role
Consultant
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$142k-$203k + equity
Team
Firmware, 4 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $153k-$265k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Boston, MAbanking strategypaymentsdue diligence
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Experience

  1. Managing Director
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Lighthouse Data · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 12 a week to 4.
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 88% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Aug 2021 - Nov 2023
    Intel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Designed the operating model for a 12 thousand-person transformation.
  3. Associate Partner
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
    Oracle · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 447ms to 56ms.
    • Moved 94% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Consultant
    May 2017 - Aug 2019
    VMware · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $67 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 28 deals.
  5. Consultant
    Mar 2016 - May 2017
    Netflix · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 13 deals.

Projects

Embedded systems benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing banking strategy and regulation on real workloads.

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Education

  1. University of Michigan
    BSE, Economics
    2004 - 2008

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