Summary
Duarte Stokes is a hands-on Chief Data Officer and former founder with eight years of experience building production-grade data, ML and cloud platforms for finance. He leads Banco Invest’s data transformation—designing a secured Azure Databricks Lakehouse, governed generative AI with RAG, and an Excel-to-Databricks gateway—while still coding core integrations himself. A self-taught programmer-quant with strong academic credentials (CQF and economics master’s), he has repeatedly turned research-grade forecasting and optimization into scalable products, from a Cython-based forecasting engine to enterprise Excel add-ins. Duarte combines practitioner-level risk quant skills with product and infra engineering, and is notable for shipping high-performance, security-conscious solutions that bridge traders, executives and data scientists.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master thesis, Density Forecasting and Momentum, 19/20, Master thesis, Density Forecasting and Momentum, 19/20 at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), Quantitative Finance, 91.2/100, Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), Quantitative Finance, 91.2/100 at CQF Institute
Bachelor's degree, Economics, 17/20, Bachelor's degree, Economics, 17/20 at Nova School of Business and Economics