Didier Lopes
Founder And CEO at C-MORE
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDidier Lopes is a founder and CEO with 9 years of engineering experience building an AI-powered research and analytics workspace for finance through OpenBB. He combines hands-on back-end development and API integrations with product leadership, having contributed core features and testing improvements to the flagship OpenBB codebase and implemented an OpenBB handler in MindsDB to enable federated AI queries. Trained in control systems at Imperial College and Delft with a strong signal-processing and sensor-fusion background from roles at u-blox and NURVV, he brings a rare mix of embedded systems, navigation algorithms, and large-scale software design. An occasional lecturer on supervised learning and open-source educator, he publishes course material publicly and advises startups on AI and tech strategy. Based in Jersey City, Didier is focused on bringing rigorous engineering practices and research-grade tooling to democratize investment research.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. in Control Systems, MSc. in Control Systems at Imperial College LondonBSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de LisboaMSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Control Systems, MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Control Systems at Delft University of TechnologyHigh School Science and Technology, High School Science and Technology at Colégio de São Miguel
English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (14)
api10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
software-quality9
pandas9
data-handling9
databases8
database8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
ai6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Investment Research for Everyone, Everywhere.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1295 reviews, 1798 commits, 1193 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Didier primarily contributed to the project by fixing a test related to black formatting, indicating their involvement in code quality and testing. They also worked on adding and integrating new features that required modifications to both prediction techniques and market data, which suggests a focus on core functionality. This indicates they have experience in developing, integrating, and maintaining existing systems in the codebase.
stock-marketpythonalgorithmic-tradingmachine-learningtrading
mindsdb/mindsdb
Jul 2021 - Dec 2023
AGI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over federated data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Didier implemented the initial handler for the OpenBB platform, enabling MindsDB to query data from OpenBB. They created an `OpenBBHandler` class, registered tables, and established a connection to the OpenBB API using a personal access token. The user's commits also included modifications to the table structure for fetching OpenBB data and improvements to error handling. Additionally, they refactored code to support the inclusion of all OpenBB commands.
localaimachine-learning-databasesolacesinglestoreexplainable-ml
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