Brad Metz
Acting Director Foreign Cyber Futures at Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolBrad Metz is an experienced cyber and technology leader with over 15 years advancing Canada’s national cyber capabilities and currently serving as Acting Director of Foreign Cyber Futures at the Communications Security Establishment in Ottawa. He has progressed from hands-on cyber analyst and malware investigator to senior leadership roles shaping capability development, analysis, and operational strategy. Brad combines a strong academic grounding in software and electrical engineering with practical program delivery and team leadership across Defence and CSE. He maintains a coder’s attention to detail—evidenced by contributions to the popular yfinance open-source project that improved financial data accuracy and testing—demonstrating comfort shifting between security, analytics, and software engineering tasks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who translates technical trade-offs into accountable policy and capability outcomes. Based in the Greater Ottawa area, he brings an unusual blend of technical rigor, operational cyber experience, and program-level stewardship.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Applied Science Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa
French
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Github Skills (9)
pandas10
stock-data10
market-prices10
python10
price-data10
yahoo-finance-api10
financial-data10
testing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
ranaroussi/yfinance
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 24 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on improving the `yfinance` library by addressing and correcting issues related to retrieving and processing financial data. This included fixing errors with institutional and mutual fund holder data retrieval and also adding unit tests to validate the correct operation of new functionality. The user also corrected UTC timestamps in options chains. The user’s contributions directly improved data accuracy and reliability of the library's core functionality.
stock-marketapipythonfinancial-datafix-yahoo-finance
bradmetz/stonks_ftw
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
A project to build a stock data pipeline and ML recommendation system.
Contributions:145 commits, 58 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 2 months
data-pipelinemachine-learningrecommendation-system
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