Rick Galbo
Founder & Researcher 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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics at Loyola University Chicago
Github Skills (109)
feature-extraction10
to-do10
deep-learning10
emmet10
tensorflow10
javascript9
dtw9
linux9
cli9
rust9
shell9
hyper9
user-friendly9
react-native9
extraction9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcgalbo/ResamplingStats
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
rcgalbo/dash_ex
May 2019 - Apr 2020
simple plot.ly dash examples running on a multi page app
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
dashplotmulti-pageplotly-dashplotly
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