Dwight Gunning

Founder & Developer at Edgar.tools

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Dwight Gunning is a seasoned founder and developer with 11 years of professional experience building data-driven systems for finance and regulatory domains. He founded Edgar.tools, an AI-native platform and open-source Python library (edgartools) with over 1M downloads, enabling programmatic access to SEC filings and financial datasets for analysts and developers. Previously he led AI and data engineering at FINRA, where he deployed production-grade generative and agentic AI solutions, created a model validation framework, and won internal innovation awards for RAG/LLM projects. Dwight’s background spans senior engineering roles in banking, cloud, and trading firms, combining Java/Python full-stack development, data pipelines, and quantitative risk modelling. He brings a rare mix of entrepreneurial product-building, regulatory domain expertise, and hands-on open-source contributions to financial data tooling.
code11 years of coding experience
job22 years of employment as a software developer
bookMsc Economics, Msc Economics at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
bookHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Calabar High School
bookMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Management Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Management Information Systems at The University of the West Indies, Mona
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Github Skills (8)

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python10
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computer-engineering9
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Programming languages (5)

JavaC++HTMLJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

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dgunning/edgartools

Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

The world's easiest, most powerful edgar library
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:38 reviews, 279 commits, 47 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dwight focused on building and improving the "edgartools" library. Their contributions involved adding data files and implementing core functionalities such as getting filings and searching. The user also made improvements to the object representation and code styling. Additionaly, they refactored various modules, including core and forms, and implemented an API to search for company concepts.
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ocan-data/OpenCanadaData

Apr 2019 - Dec 2024

Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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Dwight Gunning - Founder & Developer at Edgar.tools