Hitoshi Harada
Co-Founder at Alpaca
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolHitoshi Harada is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CPO of Alpaca, an API platform that democratizes crypto and stock trading. He combines deep backend engineering expertise with hands-on brokerage operations, having managed margin, short selling, options, market data, custody, and risk controls. Previously he architected distributed relational database systems at Pivotal and contributed core SQL:2008 window function support to PostgreSQL, plus the PL/v8 extension. Hitoshi is an active open-source maintainer for Alpaca’s Python trading clients and live trading libraries, adding Polygon data integrations, robust error handling, and testing to widely used repos. Based in Dubai, he blends startup product leadership with low-level database and distributed-systems craftsmanship. An understated strength is his track record of bridging production trading infrastructure and foundational database innovations, enabling both reliable execution and scalable data services.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Computer Science & Financial Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Financial Engineering at Keio University
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Github Skills (27)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
trading10
testing10
pandas10
backtrader10
alpaca10
api10
rest-api10
backend10
algorithmic-trading10
stock-data9
apim9
price-data9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alpacahq/alpaca-backtrader-api
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Alpaca Trading API integrated with backtrader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 4845 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Hitoshi primarily contributed to the project by fixing code quality issues such as pep8 and setup.py. They also added minimal testing to verify the functionality of the project and implemented version bumps, updating the project's __version__ to reflect changes. These commits focus on code maintenance, testing, and improving the project's overall health.
fixprotocolpythonbacktesting-trading-strategiesquantsforex-trading
alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Python client for Alpaca's trade API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 21 reviews, 92 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hitoshi primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Alpaca trade API Python client. They implemented new features for retrieving financial data from Polygon.io, adding functionality to retrieve company information, dividends, splits, earnings, financials, and news. The user also addressed error handling and retry mechanisms for API requests, alongside updating the version and ensuring code compliance.
apistock-marketpythonautomated-tradingalgorithmic-trading
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