Resume
Last updated: 2026-10-24
RESUME.TXT
Devon Lopez
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics. Expected May 2028
Regents Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
Quantitative Developer, Factors Team @ Texas A&M Quantitative Fund
Jan 2026 to Sep 2026. College Station, TX
- Built a Python stat arb system on FinBERT sentiment and mean reversion signals to find S&P 500 trades
- Pulled real-time data from the Finnhub news API and LSEG market data for factor research
- Developed, backtested, and refined multi-factor systematic strategies with the research team
- Built and validated signals for a student-managed $60K portfolio
Outreach Chair @ TAMU ColorStack
Aug 2025 to present. College Station, TX
- Organize social events and intramurals for ~200 members
- Lead outreach, recruitment, and retention to grow an inclusive CS community
Founder @ DevBuilds
Mar 2025 to Aug 2025. Cedar Park, TX
- Ran a PC business serving 45+ clients: custom builds, repairs, and setup tuning
- Brought in $1K to $2K through diagnostics, upgrades, and gaming and productivity builds
- Kept clients coming back with upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
PROJECTS
Sannvi | Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel, Railway
- Honesty Report on every run: out-of-sample split, Monte Carlo resampling, a random-trader control, and a buy-and-hold benchmark
- Walk-forward analysis, strategy mining, and NSGA-II genetic search, all with deflated stats so more searching doesn't inflate the score
- Bar replay with manual orders through the real engine, scored against random traders and your own strategy
- Paper trading on a daily schedule. No broker integration and no real orders, ever
- Stripe subscriptions, Supabase auth with row-level security, Sentry, and PostHog
Kalshi WC Bot | Python, XGBoost, SQLite, Kalshi API, APScheduler
- Dixon-Coles goals model with an ELO strength prior, a calibrated XGBoost fallback, and a logistic baseline it has to beat
- Trades only at 4%+ edge over Kalshi's implied probability, sized with half-Kelly and a hard 5% bankroll cap
- Live limit orders through the Kalshi API, settled to a SQLite ledger, with a Rich CLI dashboard
- Look-ahead guard on every feature and a time-ordered backtest (2018 dev, 2022 holdout)
- 80% profitable hit rate on live bets
LSTM Stock Bot | Python, PyTorch, SQLite, Alpaca, Finnhub, VADER
- End-to-end pipeline in one CLI: Alpaca and Finnhub ingestion, SQLite, 13 features, PyTorch LSTM, backtest, signals, paper orders
- 8 walk-forward folds, a 5-session embargo, train-only normalization, and look-ahead checks that block training on failure
- 50.5% accuracy (95% CI 50.1% to 51.0%) and +0.20% total return net of costs, vs -4.7% for logistic regression and -7.0% for random picks
- Paper-only by construction: the broker client refuses non-paper endpoints and orders are idempotent
Physics Engine | C++20, OpenGL, GLSL, GLM, CMake, Catch2
- Sequential-impulse solver with accumulated impulse clamping and a friction cone
- Exponential-map quaternion integration so rotation doesn't drift at high spin
- Shared contact point conserves angular momentum to machine precision
- Tests for free fall, bounce height, the 5/7 slide-to-roll speed, momentum conservation, and bitwise determinism
- Custom GLSL vertex and fragment shaders for real-time rendering
Internship Tracker | Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Tailwind CSS, Vercel
- Daily Vercel Cron sync of Simplify listings into Supabase
- Filter by role type, location, and what's new since my last visit
- Kanban pipeline with notes, deadlines, follow-ups, and contacts per application
- Discord alerts for new listings and follow-up reminders, plus a stats page for weekly apps and response rate
- Apply kit: resume, links, and saved answers one click from the clipboard
Network HomeLab | Linux, Proxmox, Docker, NAS, Plex, AdGuard
- Linux host with NAS storage and containerized services
- Docker containers managed on Proxmox
- Plex for media streaming and AdGuard for network-wide ad blocking
AWARDS & CERTS
- TAMUhack, 2nd place | TAMUhack
- Regents Scholarship | Texas A&M University
- CompTIA Security+ | CompTIA
- C++ Programming Fundamentals | Microsoft
- Programming in Python | Meta
- AI Fluency | Anthropic