Summary
Andrea Ropele is Head of Quant & Market Analysis at Alperia Trading with eight years of experience building production-grade forecasting, risk and execution systems for energy markets. He leads and mentors a quant team that delivers object-oriented Python tooling, Dockerized CI/CD pipelines to AWS Batch, and scalable data lakes on AWS and Databricks integrated with Airflow and Postgres. His work blends econometric research (price and volatility forecasting, PFC computation, hydro reservoir optimization) with hands-on engineering—shipping trading bots, backtested Monte Carlo simulations and enterprise deployments such as Posit Connect. Based in Trentino-South Tyrol, he combines energy-sector domain depth from Italy’s second-largest hydropower generator with practical DevOps and API integration skills, and maintains an active GitHub (github.com/aropele) reflecting his production focus.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) 2 years Finance, Master of Science (MSc) 2 years Finance at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance at Università di Trento
Diploma, Diploma at Administration High School - Andrea Colotti
Erasmus+ Finance Trading, Erasmus+ Finance Trading at Henley Business School
Italian, English