Gergely Novák
Senior Software Engineer at Alpaca
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolGergely Novák is a Senior Software Engineer based in Budapest with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems at companies like Alpaca, Cloudera and Hortonworks. At Alpaca he contributes to high‑impact open-source tooling for trading and market data—improving the Python client to support Data v2, simultaneous data and trading streams, and more accurate quote handling. He brings strong distributed-systems and API design experience from his time in big-data platforms, combined with practical hands-on coding across Python and Java. Known for shipping thoughtful fixes (e.g., improving order submission kwargs and numerical handling) he balances product-focused engineering with attention to data accuracy and edge cases.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Engineering at Budapest University Of Technology
English, Hungarian, German
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rest-api10
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python10
trading9
kubernetes9
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Github contributions (5)
alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Python client for Alpaca's trade API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 128 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gergely primarily contributed to the development of the Python client for Alpaca's trade API. Their work includes adding a `multiplier` parameter to the `get_aggregates` function, supporting both data and trading streams simultaneously, fixing quote mapping for the data stream, correcting float constructors, and adding kwargs to `submit_order`. These changes enhanced the API's functionality and improved the accuracy of the data and trading operations. Additionally, the user made significant changes to support the new Data v2 and also worked on adding trading statuses.
apistock-marketpythonautomated-tradingalgorithmic-trading
gnvk/fizioteka
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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