Alan Coppola
Co-Founder at HotChili Analytics, LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Coppola is a mathematically trained AI and systems entrepreneur with nine years of recent experience applying machine learning to computer vision, algorithmic trading, and signal processing. As Co-Founder of HotChili Analytics and former CEO of Enacor, he builds production-ready ML workflows—from FPGA-accelerated Bayesian and FFT libraries to live paper-trading pipelines and crypto market-making research. He’s led fast-turn product engineering as Interim CTO at Spot Runner, integrating Twelve Labs, OpenAI and Google AI toolchains to deliver an MVP for contextual video ad placement. Deep academic roots (MS/PhD-level mathematics) inform his preference for rigorous, statistics-driven solutions that bridge research and deployable systems. Based in Portland, he combines low-level hardware experience with modern AI stacks, an uncommon blend that accelerates both prototyping and scalable deployment.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
MS PhD Mathematics, MS PhD Mathematics at Binghamton UniversityBS Math, BS Math at University of Connecticut
python, matlab, c++
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Github Skills (45)
crypto10
docker10
python10
trading10
bots10
bitcoin10
backtesting10
trading-bot10
cryptocurrency10
exchange10
binance10
algotrading10
ethereum10
cython10
blockchain10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hotchilianalytics/alphatools
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Quantitative finance research tools in Python
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
financepythonquantitative-financequantitative
hotchilianalytics/hca-resources
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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