Philippe Morissette
Head Of Special Projects at Enertec Rail Equipment
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Morissette is a Head of Special Projects based in Montreal with 12 years of quantitative and engineering experience bridging finance and software. He progressed from research and quantitative strategist roles at BCA Research and RDA Capital into leadership at Enertec Rail Equipment, combining data-driven strategy with operational project delivery. A pragmatic Python back-end contributor, he has improved and modernized notable open-source finance libraries (ffn and bt), adding Python 3 support, new algorithms, and robustness enhancements. His background in honors investment management and East Asian studies at McGill gives him a rare mix of quantitative rigor and cross-cultural perspective that informs both technical design and stakeholder communication.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BComm, Honors Investment Management, East Asian Studies, BComm, Honors Investment Management, East Asian Studies at McGill University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
finance10
pandas10
statistical-models10
backtesting10
python10
modeling10
backtest10
computer-engineering9
debug9
algorithms9
version-control8
documentation8
api-design7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pmorissette/ffn
Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
ffn - a financial function library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 13 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the financial function library for Python, fixing menu issues and adding functionality to the core library. They introduced features, such as default values for asfreq_actual, and implemented version bumps. The user also fixed bugs in existing functions and added documentation to improve usability and readability. Furthermore, the user added Python 3 support and updated the README file.
financialpythonfunction-libraryfinancial-dataquantitative-finance
pmorissette/bt
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
bt - flexible backtesting for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 23 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `bt` library, a flexible backtesting tool for Python. Their work focused on fixing typos and formatting issues within the core files, improving code style to adhere to PEP standards, and implementing new functionalities, such as the RunEveryNPeriods Algo. The user also addressed code quality concerns by fixing bugs and improving the robustness of existing features.
pythonalgorithmic-tradingbacktesting-trading-strategiespython3quantitative-finance
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