Summary:
✅ Founder, co-owner, and portfolio manager of a 6-figure private investment fund LLC
✅ YouTube: @RoboTraderGuy
✅ Air Force veteran ✈️
✅ I specialize in programming trading bots 🤖 (equities, options, futures, crypto, forex), hooking them up to brokerage accounts, creating webpage dashboards for them, integrating them with databases, connecting them to AI / LLMs, deploying them into the cloud, and related financial automation jobs to include copy-trading, back-testing, email/text alerts, TradingView / TrendSpider webhooks, order forms, order routing scripts, sentiment analysis (like on r/WallStreetBets), scanners/screeners, as well as web scrapers
✅ 100% independent, no agencies, no bureaucracy
✅ A truly full-stack, end-to-end solution for all things algorithmic trading / quant development
✅ Better value than what you might find on TradersPost, OptionAlpha, Composer, Surmount AI, SignalStack, WhisperTrades, TradeSteward, Capitalise AI, MachineTrader, etc. Most of my clients pay under $20 in ongoing monthly fees to maintain their systems, with no limits on amount of capital invested or number of asset classes
✅ Joined Upwork in Nov 2021; obtained TOP RATED badge in Sep 2022; surpassed $100k earnings in Dec 2024; obtained TOP RATED PLUS badge in Jul 2025
Relevant education background:
📜 Dual M.S. Finance and M.S. Business Analytics, University of Dallas, 2023
📜 Certificate in Data Science, Southern Methodist University, 2024
Stock brokerage APIs:
🏛️ Alpaca 🦙
🏛️ Charles Schwab 🏊♂️
🏛️ Etrade *️⃣
🏛️ Lime Financial 🍋🟩
🏛️ Public 🗽
🏛️ SnapTrade 🫰
🏛️ TastyTrade 🍒
🏛️ TradeStation 🚉
🏛️ Tradier ↗️
🏛️ Tradovate 🗠
Crypto APIs:
🪙 Coinbase 💠
🪙 Crypto(.com) 🦁
🪙 Gemini ♊
🪙 Jupiter 🪐
🪙 Kraken 🦑
🪙 OKX ⬛
🪙 Robinhood 🪶
Programming languages:
💻 Python
💻 HTML
💻 CSS
💻 Javascript
💻 Google Apps Script (Google Sheets)
💻 VBA (Microsoft Excel)
💻 SAS
Trading languages (read-only proficiency):
📈 EasyLanguage
📈 Pinescript
📈 Thinkscript
3rd party market data services:
📊 DataBento
📊 Financial Modeling Prep
📊 Massive (formerly Polygon)
📊 TwelveData
Tyler P. earns an estimated $7.2k/mo. That's 4.9× the typical freelancer and more than 99.75% of everyone we track.
Web development frameworks:
🌐 Flask
🌐 Plotly Dash
🌐 Streamlit
Databases:
💾 Firebase
💾 MongoDB
💾 SQLite
Cloud platforms:
☁️ Fly IO
☁️ GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
☁️ Heroku (Salesforce)
☁️ Linode
☁️ Python Anywhere
☁️ Railway
☁️ Render
Email/texting notification services:
🛎️ ClickSend / Sinch
🛎️ Discord
🛎️ Slack
🛎️ Telegram
🛎️ WhatsApp
🛎️ Twilio / SendGrid
🛎️ Twitter / X
🛎️ Vonage / Nexmo
Software:
⭐ Power BI
⭐ Tableau
Recent real-world jobs done for Upwork clients:
👏 Created a webpage which enables multiple users to ability to make their own bots with no code, includes parameters such as entry time, exit time, position sizing, number of legs, etc.
👏 Executed an iron condor strategy with multiple stop losses, profit takes, and futures hedging
👏 Taught a client with almost no prior Python knowledge how to program his own multileg options bot and implement it on a brokerage with error handling features in under 50 hours
👏 See the portfolio section on my profile for more
Other relevant experience:
💯 I programmed my own algorithmic trading bot that I run daily using my own real money. I do not sell my own bot, but I will make yours
FAQ:
❔Do you sell pre-made bots?
↪️ While I do sell pre-made templates, I don't sell pre-made strategies. If you want pre-made strategies, then head on over to Collective2
❔How much money will my bot make?
↪️ Whether or not your bot makes money will depend largely on the requirements I am provided. I don't make any guarantees
❔Do you have experience with X?
↪️ While I am constantly adding to my skillset, here's a list of things that at this time I have no experience with: AFL/Amibroker, AWS, Azure, blockchain, Bloomberg, cTrader, DAS Trader, DeFi/DeX, Django, eSignal, FastAPI, FIX, FTMO, Interactive Brokers TWS, Keras (or any deep learning), MT4/MetaTrader 4, neural networks, NinjaTrader, NodeJS, Postgres, prop accounts (APEX, TopStep, etc.), React, TypeScript, Zapier
❔How much will this cost?
↪️ My project minimum is 5 hours / $500. My largest job has been for $40,000. My average job is $3000. All my earnings data is displayed publicly on my profile because I have nothing to hide. I've never had any feedback removed like other freelancers often do
❔How long will it take?
↪️ My average project takes 3-4 weeks. My smallest projects take 1 week. My largest projects take 2+ months
❔Can you build on my existing codebase?
↪️ I generally prefer to start from scratch, but this may be possible
❔When are you available to speak with me?
↪️ Please book a consultation if you wish to speak synchronously (phone/video calls). My typical hours are 10am-10pm CST, 7 days a week. I don't offer free synchronous time due to high invite volume. I will answer text messages usually within 24 hours