Robert Grzesik
CEO at BotSpot
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRobert Grzesik is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur who has spent 35+ years building production-grade systems and 15+ years focused on financial technology, currently leading BotSpot to deliver AI-driven tooling across the investment lifecycle. He founded Lumiwealth and created Lumibot, an open-source Python trading and backtesting framework with 1,300+ GitHub stars that powers live trading across dozens of brokers and thousands of developers. Robert has repeatedly built core trading and brokerage infrastructure from scratch—most notably as an early engineer at Voyager where he helped architect a microservice order management system for a company that reached unicorn status. He combines hands-on coding across Python, Go, NodeJS and ML stacks with executive experience scaling teams to 100+ engineers and commercial products generating seven-figure revenue. Based in the New York metro area and holding an MFin from Schulich, he brings a rare mix of trading domain expertise, open-source credibility, and operator-first AI product vision.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Commerce, Management, Minor in Economics, Honours Bachelor of Commerce, Management, Minor in Economics at McMaster UniversityMasters, Finance, Masters, Finance at Schulich School of Business - York University
English, Polish
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Github Skills (7)
bots10
backtesting10
python10
algorithmic-trading10
data-integration10
backtest10
trading-bot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Lumiwealth/lumibot
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Backtesting and Trading Bots Made Easy for Crypto, Stocks, Options, Futures, FOREX and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:232 reviews, 596 commits, 731 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert implemented a demo strategy for algorithmic trading, introducing a basic trading strategy with buy and sell logic. They also modified the main application to integrate the new strategy, including changes to data sources and incorporating features such as before-market-closes functionality and the handling of bot crashes. Their work directly contributed to expanding the trading bot's functionality.
pythonbacktesting-trading-strategiescrypto-botstrategyforex-trading
Lumiwealth/LumibotML
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 commits in 11 months
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