Brandon Fan
Chief Executive Officer at open-shade
Ann Arbor, M, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Fan is a founder and software leader with 10 years of experience building data-intensive systems and startups from New York. As CEO and cofounder of Shade, he’s focused on realtime search and access for petabytes of media, translating deep backend expertise into product-level solutions. He brings hands-on engineering chops—rewriting trading-framework analysis logic and building backtesting pipelines with pandas/numpy—to his leadership role, and has a track record of research-driven ML work on transformers for product-sentence extraction and bioinformatics text classification. Brandon pairs his engineering background (Computer Science, University of Michigan) with product instincts honed running faith-focused consumer apps and integrates cloud and data infrastructure experience into scalable storage and indexing products. An operator who still ships code, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a research mindset to tackle hard problems in intelligent media storage.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
35reputation
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Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
back-end-development10
python10
trading10
app-framework10
pandas10
tradingview10
numpy10
web-framework10
algorithmic-trading10
api-design9
api9
amp-html6
firebase6
google-identity6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
blankly-finance/blankly
May 2021 - Apr 2022
🚀 💸 Easily build, backtest and deploy your algo in just a few lines of code. Trade stocks, cryptos, and forex across exchanges w/ one package.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 191 commits, 32 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the development of a trading bot framework by rewriting and adding new analysis functions using pandas and numpy. They added initial strategy functionalities, order interfaces, and incorporated additional technical indicators. The user also refactored the code, updating event handling and interface calls, integrating these new indicators into a unified backtesting environment.
backtestcryptocurrencybot-frameworkinvestmentbots
Biblink/biblink-frontend
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Frontend Development For Biblink
Contributions:28 PRs, 431 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 1 month
frontend-developmentjavascriptfrontend
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