Femto Trader
Trader at Undef
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarFemto Trader is a Paris-based trader and software engineer with 12 years of experience building production-ready trading tools and data libraries. He blends a background in physics/electrical engineering education with hands-on open-source contributions—helping develop the QSTrader backtesting engine, enhancing the IG Markets Python wrapper with real-time Lightstreamer support, and improving pandas-datareader internals. Comfortable across backend, full-stack, and data-science roles, he implements indicators, plotting, and robust session handling to bridge research and live trading. An educator at heart, he brings analytical rigor to code and strategy design, and quietly focuses on turning amateur trading into disciplined, well-instrumented investing.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
apim10
python10
back-end-development10
financial-data10
trading10
data-set10
pandas10
analyse10
price-data10
data-model10
api10
http-request10
data-analysis10
api-design9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
femtotrader/pandas_talib
Jul 2015 - May 2018
A Python Pandas implementation of technical analysis indicators
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Femto primarily contributed to implementing technical analysis indicators within the pandas_talib library. They modified the `setup.py` file, potentially for package configuration. Their work includes adding a data download script and modifying existing files to use data for financial analysis. Additionally, they tested and implemented functions for indicators, showcasing their understanding of financial data analysis using Python and Pandas.
data-analysispythondata-scienceindicatorstechnical-analysis-indicators
ig-python/trading-ig
Jan 2015 - May 2020
A lightweight Python wrapper for the IG Markets API
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 40 PRs, 100 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Femto primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Python wrapper for the IG Markets API. They modified code to interact with the IG Markets API, including updates to the base URL, header configurations, and session handling. Furthermore, they implemented Lightstreamer integration for real-time data, adding functionality for subscribing to various channels and processing updates. The user also addressed Python 2/3 compatibility issues and improved the overall stability and functionality of the library.
apipythonpython-wrappertradinginteractive-brokers
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