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Outside work?
In my spare time I do boxing, play soccer, code, read books or play PS5.Nowadays I put work first. But I intend to travel to over 100 different countries.
My journey.
2024 🗽 Moved with family again to be closer to customers in NYC.
2023 🇺🇸 Moved with family to the Bay area, to be closer to tech founders and investors.
2022 🦋 Announced OpenBB to the world and rebranded the terminal - [announcement].
2021 📈 We raised $8.9M in a seed round to democratize investment research.
2021 🦍 Gamestonk Terminal was open source and went viral on Reddit and HackerNews.
2020 🦠 During Xmas my flight got cancelled. So started building a financial terminal.
2020 😤 Performing own investment research and frustrated by how time-consuming it was.
2020 🏃 Joined startup NURVV and worked as Sensor Fusion Engineer [paper].
2019 🎓 Wrote code behind my math teacher's thesis on Forecasting of Financial timeseries.
2018 🚗 Excited about AI and self-driving cars, worked as Software Engineer at u-blox.
2017 🇬🇧 Moved to London for a MSc. in Control Systems at Imperial College London [paper].
2016 🇳🇱 Did a semester in TU Delft and learned about self-driving cars.
2013 📚 BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FCT-UNL.
2003 🇵🇹 Moved to Portugal when I was 8yo.
1995 🇨🇭 I was born in Switzerland, but both my parents are Portuguese emigrants.