My journey.
2024 π½ Moved with family again to be closer to customers in NYC.
2023 πΊπΈ Moved with family to the Bay area, to be closer to tech founders and investors.
2022 π¦ Announced OpenBB to the world and rebranded the terminal - [announcement].
2021 π We raised $8.9M in a seed round to democratize investment research.
2021 π¦ Gamestonk Terminal was open source and went viral on Reddit and HackerNews.
2020 π¦ During Xmas my flight got cancelled. So started building a financial terminal.
2020 π€ Performing own investment research and frustrated by how time-consuming it was.
2020 π Joined startup NURVV and worked as Sensor Fusion Engineer [paper].
2019 π Wrote code behind my math teacher's thesis on Forecasting of Financial timeseries.
2018 π Excited about AI and self-driving cars, worked as Software Engineer at u-blox.
2017 π¬π§ Moved to London for a MSc. in Control Systems at Imperial College London [paper].
2016 π³π± Did a semester in TU Delft and learned about self-driving cars.
2013 π BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FCT-UNL.
2003 π΅πΉ Moved to Portugal when I was 8yo.
1995 π¨π I was born in Switzerland, but both my parents are Portuguese emmigrants.
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What I believe in.
"Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation." - Matt Mullenweg
Building an open-source legacy, one commit at a time. Follow my journey on GitHub.
Starting with the most open financial company: openbb.co/open.
Outside work?
In my spare time I like to do boxing, read books, play soccer or PS5 with wife.Nowadays I put work first. But I intend to travel to over 100 different countries.