Theodore Aptekarev
Director Of Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Podgorica, Montenegro
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Top SchoolTheodore Aptekarev is a Director of Engineering with 8 years of hands-on experience leading cloud-native infrastructure, modular architecture, and GenAI product adoption. He progressed from principal engineer to director at OpenBB, where he led the migration from a monolith to an open-source extension framework and helped scale the project to widespread visibility while improving code quality and documentation. Theodore blends deep domain expertise in medical imaging, statistics, and multidimensional graphics with practical experience shipping FDA-cleared AI-driven medical devices and manufacturing products. He is comfortable both architecting Terraform-managed AWS platforms and mentoring engineers to own them, and he drove SOC2 compliance and a sensitive license change to align open-source strategy with business needs. An active contributor to the popular OpenBB finance project, he focuses on robustness, testing, and user-facing documentation—traits that reflect his polymath approach to problem solving. Based in Podgorica, he pairs an inquisitive research mindset with product-focused execution, often spotting nonobvious patterns across disciplines.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Sociology, Sociology at Higher School of EconomicsStrategy and tactics of management of sports projects, Strategy and tactics of management of sports projects at Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian FederationLomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
python10
jupyter-notebook9
sphinx9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Investment Research for Everyone, Everywhere.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 528 reviews, 269 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Theodore made several contributions focused on enhancing and maintaining the codebase. These contributions included fixing linter warnings and comment styling, indicating a focus on code quality and readability. Additionally, the user added sphinx documentation and Jupyter Lab extensions, demonstrating involvement in improving the project's documentation and user interface. The user's work highlights a focus on code quality, documentation, and potentially, improving the user experience.
stock-marketpythonalgorithmic-tradingmachine-learningtrading
OpenBB-finance/pytest_recorder
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Pytest plugin, meant to facilitate unit tests writing for tools consumming Web APIs.
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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