Louis Berman
Cofounder Board Member at GuardRailNow
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Berman is a seasoned technology leader, entrepreneur, and AI existential-risk advocate with 13 years of documented professional experience and 25 years building AI and cloud systems. As cofounder and board member of GuardRailNow and the AI Risk Network behind the For Humanity channel, he blends public advocacy and technical credibility—having briefed over 60 policymakers while authoring two books on x-risk. Technically he’s delivered large-scale cloud and trading infrastructure, from building an early global CDN on Azure to developing automated trading platforms and contributing a WickoConsolidator to QuantConnect’s widely used Lean engine. Formerly EPAM’s Chief Technologist for Azure and a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect, he has led cloud modernization for Fortune-scale clients and architected one of the largest RDMA-style clusters in Azure. His current work as CTO of SquidEyes applies hedge-fund-grade trading techniques to retail FX, underscoring a rare blend of high-stakes finance engineering and public-interest AI safety. An amateur astronomer who once led the first visual observation of Eris, he brings curiosity and a long view to technology’s societal impact.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Theatrical Design, Theatrical Design at Purchase College, SUNY
Github Skills (8)
trading-algorithms10
csharp10
algorithmic-trading10
dotnet-core10
data-analysis10
algorithm9
trading8
tradingview8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
QuantConnect/Lean
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Louis contributed to the `lean` algorithmic trading engine by developing a `WickoConsolidator`. This involved implementing the core logic for calculating Wicko bars based on price data. The commits show the user creating the `WickoConsolidator.cs` file and implementing the necessary calculations for generating the bars based on the defined logic and creating tests for the consolidator. The user's work directly enhanced the engine's ability to process and analyze financial data.
algorithmic-trading-enginepythonpinescriptbacktesting-trading-strategiesc-sharp
squideyes/TickData
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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