# Kilobytez: Capital-Markets Engineering and Custom Software, Prosper, Texas

> Kilobytez LLC is a principal-led software firm in Prosper, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth), led by Devon Edwards, who has been doing this work since 2012: fourteen years in enterprise IT, data architecture and capital-markets technology. Kilobytez builds trading systems, market data infrastructure and exchange connectivity for capital-markets teams, and custom software, workflow automation, dashboards, integrations and human-reviewed AI for businesses and public agencies.

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## Company facts

- Legal name: Kilobytez LLC (a new Texas limited liability company; the founder's work goes back to 2012)
- Location: Prosper, Texas, USA; work delivered in North Texas and remotely nationwide
- Founder and owner: Devon Edwards, Chief Executive Officer and principal engineer
- Delivery: principal-led; Devon Edwards leads every engagement and draws on a vetted, U.S.-based contractor bench as scope requires
- Federal registration: active in SAM, CAGE 24ST7, UEI HE6PUL2P11K1, small business
- NAICS: 541511, 541512, 541513, 541519, 541611, 518210
- Not held today (stated plainly on the site): GSA Schedule, GWAC, FedRAMP authorization, CMMC certification
- Website: https://www.kilobytez.com
- Contact form: https://www.kilobytez.com/contact
- Email: info@kilobytez.com
- Phone: 972-737-7993
- LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/kilobytez
- LinkedIn (founder): https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedwards43/

## Capital-markets engineering

- Trading systems: execution management (EMS), order management (OMS), algorithmic trading frameworks, backtesting and simulation, risk and position keeping, trade reconciliation and reporting. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/trading-systems
- Exchange connectivity: FIX gateways, order routing, drop copy and market data integration, built against the protocol specifications a venue publishes. Kilobytez holds no live venue connection of its own today. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/exchange-connectivity
- Market data infrastructure: ingestion, normalization and time-series storage for real-time and historical market data, with replay and observability built in. No latency or throughput figures are published. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/market-data-infrastructure
- Legacy modernization: moving legacy stacks to maintainable, cloud-ready architecture with a cutover that can be tested first. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/legacy-modernization
- Financial and trading technology overview: https://www.kilobytez.com/services/financial-trading-technology
- Hedge funds: execution, data and research systems, plus fractional CTO work. https://www.kilobytez.com/industries/hedge-funds
- Proprietary trading firms: execution systems and data pipelines under NDA, with client names kept off the site. https://www.kilobytez.com/industries/prop-trading
- Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) readiness: connectivity preparation work (FIX planning, certification test harnesses, market data path, production runbooks) for firms not yet connected. Kilobytez has no relationship with TXSE and has not certified against it. https://www.kilobytez.com/txse

## Software for every business

- Custom software development: web applications, internal tools, portals and dashboards. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/custom-software-development
- Business process automation: workflow automation, system integration and AI-assisted operations. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/business-process-automation
- AI consulting and training: practical AI strategy, internal copilots and team enablement, with human review of anything AI-assisted. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/ai-consulting-training
- Retail and commercial software: inventory, customer engagement, booking, tenant and operations software. https://www.kilobytez.com/services/retail-commercial-software
- Government: portals, workflow and approval systems, credential and document management, notifications, dashboards and systems integration. Capability statement: https://www.kilobytez.com/government

## Selected work

- Proprietary trading firm, under NDA: statistical arbitrage pipeline and execution systems (ongoing). Client, latency, volume and P&L are never published.
- Alpha Kings: public site for a live trading platform, alphakings.io (ongoing).
- Quantum Alpha LLC: public site for a live trading platform, quantumalpha.io (ongoing).
- Missy's Makings: Shopify storefront, $12,500, May to August 2026, live; the client takes reference calls.
- EdRam Solutions Inc: software engagement, $75,000, January to March 2023, performed by KB AI, Devon Edwards's predecessor company.
- Details: https://www.kilobytez.com/case-studies

## How Kilobytez works

- AI-assisted engineering is used as leverage; a person reviews architecture, security, business logic and production code before anything ships.
- Workflow first, AI second: the process, data and handoffs are mapped before automation is recommended.
- Accurate about scope: what Kilobytez does not hold or has not done is stated on the site.

## Articles

- Preparing for TXSE: What Broker-Dealers Need to Know. https://www.kilobytez.com/insights/preparing-for-txse
- FIX 5.0 vs FIX 4.4: Key Differences. https://www.kilobytez.com/insights/fix-5-vs-fix-4
- Dallas as a Financial Hub: The Y'all Street Effect. https://www.kilobytez.com/insights/dallas-financial-hub

## More

- About and verification: https://www.kilobytez.com/about
- Why Kilobytez: https://www.kilobytez.com/why-kilobytez
- Security: https://www.kilobytez.com/security
- Full reference for AI systems: https://www.kilobytez.com/llms-full.txt