Curtis Faith
Cofounder And CTO at Wazobia
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Faith is a serial entrepreneur and technical fixer with 11+ years of modern experience and decades of hands-on systems and trading expertise, currently cofounder and CTO of Wazobia in Cambridge, MA. He specializes in restoring and live-upgrading critical, high-performance systems, building developer tools, distributed execution architectures, and large-scale web and enterprise applications. As a trading systems guru and former Turtle trader, he translated that rigor into algorithmic trading engines and metrics like the Galt Ratio, and has run production research and back-testing platforms used by hedge funds. Curtis has contributed to OpenCog/AtomSpace backend stability and Python/C++ integration for AGI projects, reflecting deep comfort with low-level concurrency and memory issues. He intentionally hires and mentors world-class, diverse developer teams, often from underserved regions, and prefers work that treats engineering as craft and art. Known for controlled demolition of broken systems, he only partners with organizations committed to being the best in the world.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
n/a Electrical and Electronics Engineering, n/a Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spanish
Github Skills (18)
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c-language10
python10
graph-database10
cython10
cprogramming-language10
server10
server-side10
multithreading9
knowledge-graph9
knowledge-representation9
apidoc8
api8
agi8
algorithms6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opencog/opencog
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
A framework for integrated Artificial Intelligence & Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 72 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Curtis focused on improving the server-side functionality of the OpenCog project. Their contributions included fixing thread crashes related to the destruction of the CogServer, addressing issues with Python initialization by moving it to a single place and removing unnecessary calls, and fixing bugs with the handling of atomspace and python globals. These changes likely improved the server's stability and the reliability of the Python integration.
unsupervised-learning-algorithmsroboticsnatural-language-understandingartificial-general-intelligenceintegrated
opencog/atomspace
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
The OpenCog (hyper-)graph database and graph rewriting system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:141 commits, 43 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to the AtomSpace graph database and graph rewriting system by addressing implementation details and correcting bugs. They focused on fixing issues related to Python Atom identifier duplication, modifying CMake files for type definitions, and updating script files. The user also refactored the codebase to consolidate the Handle and Atom objects into a simpler interface, demonstrating strong familiarity with the project's internal data structures.
logic-programmingopencogknowledge-baseedgedbknowledge-graph
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