Joel Brass
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJoel Brass is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 13 years driving architecture, infrastructure, and delivery excellence across cloud, performance engineering, and CI/CD toolchains. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends strategic team-building and procurement experience with deep technical craft—scripting, Linux ops, web services, and the full Atlassian stack—to streamline build/release and ALM processes. A Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Agile Service Manager, and CCJPE, he has a track record of enabling continuous delivery and integrating development tools for higher customer satisfaction. Joel’s open-source contributions include improving data integrations for Lumibot’s trading/backtesting platform, reflecting a practical focus on robust data handling for real-world systems. He’s known for pairing process consulting with hands-on problem solving and a voracious appetite for learning new technologies.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
python10
trading10
finance10
backtesting10
backtest10
trading-bot10
alpaca10
api10
data-handling10
algorithmic-trading10
cakephp9
pandas9
broker8
cryptocurrency8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Lumiwealth/lumibot
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Backtesting and Trading Bots Made Easy for Crypto, Stocks, Options, Futures, FOREX and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the `lumibot` project by modifying the data source integration, specifically enhancing the Alpaca data retrieval process. They addressed an issue related to data endpoints and incorporated the latest Alpaca data endpoints. The user also made changes related to the merging of documentation updates and adjustments to various files and functions, including those used by the InteractiveBrokers broker and the strategy execution process. These changes highlight a focus on data handling and the improvement of trading bot functionalities.
pythonbacktesting-trading-strategiescrypto-botstrategyforex-trading
jbrass/lumibot
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Backtesting and Trading Bots Made Easy for Crypto, Stocks, Options, Futures, FOREX and more
Contributions:2 PRs, 152 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
pythonbacktesting-trading-strategiesforex-tradingfinancestocks
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