Jacob Amaral
Quantitative Developer
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Amaral is a quantitative developer with 11 years of experience building algorithmic trading systems focused on derivative futures and commodities. Based in Miami, he architects backtesting and live trading platforms — including HFT-capable pipelines — and has hands-on integration experience with brokers and APIs like Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, Alpaca, FIX and Binance. He founded and leads engineering at WeTrade Labs, automating market-facing software and delivering data engineering, scraping and low-latency execution solutions for clients. At CSCB Management he continues to apply quantitative research to trading strategies, combining rigorous mathematical modeling from earlier 3D/geometry-focused development with production-grade software design. Outside of work he writes trading bots, maintains a public resource at codealgotrading.com, and balances coding with weightlifting, reflecting a disciplined, performance-oriented approach to engineering and markets.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Banting Memorial High SchoolOntario College Advanced Co-op Diploma, Computer Programming, 85.7%, Ontario College Advanced Co-op Diploma, Computer Programming, 85.7% at Georgian College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
backtrader9
erc7218
titan8
cryptocurrency7
bitcoin7
erc207
styles7
crypto6
backtest6
trading6
api6
near-real-time6
discord-py6
ethereum6
discord-bot6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Jake0303/TDAmeritradeDiscordBot
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:144 commits, 140 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Jake0303/ExpenseTracker
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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