Glenn Sidney
Co-Founder And Senior Web Developer at Glenn Fu
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolGlenn Sidney is a co-founder and senior web developer with 17 years of experience building production Rails apps, APIs, and delightful user experiences from Lexington, Kentucky. He holds a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science and transitioned from ASP.NET to a long-running focus on Ruby on Rails, BDD with RSpec, and jQuery-driven front ends. As a serial founder and consultant he’s shipped products spanning mobile backends, newsroom-scale video and content workflows (Al Jazeera America), and consumer-facing marketplace tooling for local farmers’ markets. He cares deeply about clean, tested code and measurable user delight—if the test suite is green and customers say “ooh neat,” he knows he’s succeeded. He’s also contributed backend improvements to open-source projects like the Zenbot trading bot, improving its genetic backtester and backtesting accuracy. Practical, product-minded, and hands-on, he mixes strong engineering discipline with UX sensibility to turn complex requirements into polished features.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at High Point University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
microstrategy10
javascript10
backtesting10
backtest10
nodejs10
trading9
genetic-algorithm9
momentjs9
emberjs6
amazon-s36
facebook-graph-api6
eager-loading6
capybara6
facebook6
selenium-webdriver6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DeviaVir/zenbot
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Zenbot is a command-line cryptocurrency trading bot using Node.js and MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 19 PRs, 65 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily contributed to the `darwin.js` script, focusing on enhancing its functionality for the genetic backtester. They implemented support for specifying start and end dates/times, ensuring these parameters are correctly passed to subsequent function calls. Additional contributions involved resolving output issues related to the neural strategy and making some values sticky and not mutate. These changes improved the accuracy and usability of the backtesting process.
zenbotpythonbotstrategycryptocurrency-trading
glennfu/hexiomsolver
Oct 2008 - Oct 2008
Contributions:34 commits in 8 days
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