Richard Gerum
Co-Founder & CTO at Atrium Music Ltd
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard Gerum is a co-founder and CTO blending 11 years of interdisciplinary research and product engineering to build Barudion, an adaptive ETF portfolio platform that applies Bayesian statistics to replicate and improve on All-Weather investment strategies. He leads the web stack (Next.js, React, Tailwind, Vercel, Supabase) to deliver a polished user experience while designing model portfolios that balance diversification and targeted capital concentration. Previously a postdoctoral researcher, Richard published extensively (39 papers across neuroscience, biophysics, and machine learning), won best paper at IJCNN, and developed open-source tools and finite-element solvers used for cellular force reconstruction. His background spans hands-on lab work in Antarctica to building bio-inspired spiking networks, giving him a rare combination of experimental rigor and practical software delivery. He thrives at the intersection of AI and finance, turning complex scientific methods into accessible investing products.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Universität RegensburgDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, summa cum laude at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergFrühstudium, parallel zu Zivildienst, Physics, Frühstudium, parallel zu Zivildienst, Physics at Universität Bayreuth
English, French, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
postgresql10
image-processing10
annotations10
language-learning10
image-viewer10
effort10
code-generation10
mouse10
duolingo10
plot10
camera10
apply10
interactive10
monorepo10
points10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rgerum/unofficial-duolingo-stories
May 2020 - Jan 2023
This project brings the official Duolingo Stories to new languages, translated by a community effort.
Contributions:1 release, 568 commits, 113 PRs in 2 years 8 months
monoreporeacteffortlanguage-learningmysql
fabrylab/Deformation_Cytometer
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
a low cost easy to use deformation cytometer
Contributions:3 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pytorchlow-costpythondeformation
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