Gustavo Avilés
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DIRECTOR OF WEB SERVICES at QuantConnect
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Avilés is a senior software engineer and Director of Web Services based in Miami with 11 years of experience building and modernizing full-stack web platforms at QuantConnect. He has driven measurable operational improvements—reducing infrastructure costs, launching customer-facing interfaces that boosted retention and revenue, and instituting project monitoring and data warehouse solutions for better metrics. A hands-on engineer, Gustavo contributes to the open-source QuantConnect ecosystem, improving documentation, Jupyter notebook tooling, and both front-end and C# back-end features for the LEAN algorithmic trading engine. He brings a strong mentorship ethos, having led web teams through rapid growth, recruited for new offices, and coached developers across the stack. Notably, his early work helped secure seed funding and drove community growth and SEO strategy that now accounts for a significant portion of traffic. He pairs engineering depth with product-minded metrics work and an ongoing MBA pursuit, blending technical execution with business leadership.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Civil Industrial, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Cum Laude, Ingeniero Civil Industrial, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Cum Laude at Universidad de ChileMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Florida International UniversityEducación Media, Educación Media at Colegio Mayor de Peñalolén
Spanish, English
Github Skills (16)
algorithm10
html10
user-manual10
jupyter-notebook10
csharp10
basics10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
python10
trading10
algorithmic-trading10
documentation10
dotnet-core10
trading-algorithms9
format-table9
finance9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
QuantConnect/Tutorials
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Jupyter notebook tutorials from QuantConnect website for Python, Finance and LEAN.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:55 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the documentation of the QuantConnect tutorials. Their commits focused on styling tables, adding and removing HTML elements, and reformatting existing content. They also fixed HTML errors and updated image protocols. The user's work involved structuring tutorial content for the QuantConnect platform.
pythonquantconnectjupyter-notebooknotebookjupyter
QuantConnect/Documentation
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
QuantConnect Wiki Style Documentation Behind QuantConnect
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 180 commits, 71 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo's commits focus on adding and modifying documentation within the QuantConnect documentation repository. They add new content related to order error codes, coding environments, asset classes, and research, as well as improve existing documentation by fixing formatting issues and updating table styles. The contributions primarily enhance the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation.
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