James Maslek
Senior Full Stack Data Scientist
Lorton, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJames Maslek is a Senior Full Stack Data Scientist with six years of experience blending research-grade physics training (PhD in Physics) with hands-on engineering and product leadership. As Founder and former COO of OpenBB, he helped build and scale a popular open-source investment research platform and contributed backend features such as FRED economic-data integration and menu-driven tooling. Now at ICA, Inc., he applies full-stack data science to production systems, bridging complex quantitative models and user-facing services. His background in optics and experimental physics gives him a strong instinct for precision and reproducible pipelines, and he’s comfortable refactoring and shipping backend systems that empower end users to explore economic and financial data.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Science, Optics, Bachelor of Science, Optics at University of Rochester
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Data Platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1893 reviews, 894 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:James implemented a FRED page and added the functionality to look at GDP data, incorporating a menu system for interacting with the FRED economic data. They added a new function to allow for custom FRED data. The user added a new configuration variable for a FRED API key and made code formatting changes to multiple files within the project. The changes involved creating functions, and a complete refactoring of the menu.
ai-agentdata-platformpythonmachine-learningfinance
aia/OpenBBTerminal
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
The next best thing after Bloomberg Terminal
Contributions:136 commits in 23 days
terminalbloombergpythoncli
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