Ricardo M
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarRicardo M is a software engineer with six years of hands-on experience in test automation and quality assurance, based in the Netherlands. He strengthens open-source projects by hardening testing infrastructure and improving data validation, notably contributing to the popular yfinance library where he fixed edge cases around ISIN tickers, date handling, dividends, and splits. Comfortable refactoring for maintainability and PEP 8 compliance, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable, reproducible test suites that prevent regressions. Colleagues rely on him to translate tricky financial-data behaviors into robust automated tests, revealing a detail-oriented mindset that complements his "coder" ethos.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
pandas10
unit-test10
python10
test-automation10
price-data9
financial-data9
stock-data9
market-prices9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ranaroussi/yfinance
Aug 2020 - Jul 2023
Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 10 PRs, 23 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily focused on improving and maintaining the testing infrastructure for the `yfinance` library. Their commits include adjustments to test cases, fixing potential failures related to single ISIN tickers, and ensuring accurate date handling. The contributions included adding missing comments to existing tests and refactoring existing code to align with PEP 8 standards. The changes also touched on data validation with respect to events such as dividends and stock splits.
stock-marketapipythonfinancial-datafix-yahoo-finance
ricardoprins/intro-quantum
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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