Freddie Vargus
Co-founder CTO at Quotient AI
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFreddie Vargus is Co-founder and CTO with 10 years of experience building production ML, data and platform systems from Boston. He has scaled high-throughput systems—driving an advertising bidding platform from 5M to 500M+ Kafka events per day—and built job-processing and end-to-end evaluation infrastructure to improve GitHub Copilot. Freddie also contributes to quant finance open source as a technical writer for the well-known Zipline backtesting library and previously built a tab-complete system used by ~250k Quantopian users. He blends product-facing API work, startup execution (QuikForce was incubated at Harvard iLab and raised ~$1M) and engineering leadership to turn research and open-source tooling into reliable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Boston University
Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
2,571reputation
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50answers
28questions
Github Skills (12)
documentations10
documentation10
history6
big-o6
user-interface6
radio-button6
weather6
android6
github6
python6
java6
algorithmic-trading5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
quantopian/zipline
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Zipline, a Pythonic Algorithmic Trading Library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 releases, 31 commits, 128 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Freddie primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation. Their contributions include adding release notes for different versions, updating the README file with a questions and contributing section, and removing outdated information from the tutorial notebook. These efforts improved the usability and clarity of the project for users and contributors.
algorithmic-trading-libraryalgorithmic-tradingpythontrading-botbacktesting-trading-strategies
puzzledsean/PriveTime
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 1 year 3 months
kotlinlifestylelifestyle-appandroid
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