Rick Galbo
Founder at Wayy Research
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRick Galbo is an AI engineering and quantitative research leader with 11 years of experience building production ML systems for finance and energy trading, currently founding Wayy Research after co-founding Wayy Health. He has a strong track record delivering end-to-end solutions—from securities master databases and alpha-signal research to real-time pricing and predicting 400,000+ NYISO power price nodes for auction optimization—combining deep Python and C++ expertise with PyTorch, JAX, and LLM tooling. Comfortable in cloud-native data stacks (GCP, AWS, BigQuery, Snowflake) and high-frequency quantitative workflows, he also manages credit derivatives tech for a NAM trading desk and holds FINRA SIE & Series 57. A statistician by training, Rick blends rigorous time-series and Bayesian methods with practical deployment experience (RAG, fine-tuning, backtesting), and his background spans startups, consulting, and large financial institutions, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and production-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics at Loyola University Chicago
Github Skills (84)
feature-extraction10
emmet10
tensorflow10
javascript9
linux9
shell9
html9
hyper9
css9
react9
nextcloud9
android9
nodejs9
obsidian9
macos9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcgalbo/ResamplingStats
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
rcgalbo/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years
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