Eric Welch
Summary
AI software developer and founder of Welch Software in Victor, Idaho, open to remote work. Current work leads with Meridian, an AI market platform (.NET 9, Blazor) for live data, signals, and backtesting. Forty-three strategies run on each ticker, and each optimization pass on that ticker sweeps 14,625 parameter combinations — signal confidence, trend strength, stop-loss, and profit target — to read how the name is moving. Real trading runs through Alpaca, E*TRADE, Schwab, and IBKR, and paper trading as well: intraday equities, intraday options, and longer-term auto-trading.
Thirteen years on GPC/NAPA TRACS with small teams of two or three. The product is in hundreds of shops across the US. Wrote the online parts catalogs that generate the shops' parts income, along with accounts receivable, item management, customer and vehicle management, shop settings, purchase-order tracking, reporting, and manager dashboards across operations and the financials, plus telemetry monitoring. Wrote many of those parts alone. C# and .NET, WPF, WCF and communications technology, SQL Server, SignalR, Entity Framework.
Also runs local large language models, and hardware interfacing for keyboard and lighting control. Earlier career includes Apple, Philips Mobile Computing Group, Unwired Planet (later Phone.com), and Nokia on mobile phone technology. Owner of Welch Software, LLC since 2003. B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Vermont.
Experience
Welch Software, LLC — Founder & AI Software Developer
Victor, ID · January 2003 – Present
- Current work is AI software from Victor, Idaho: Meridian, an AI market platform on .NET 9 and Blazor — live data, signals, and backtesting. Forty-three strategies run on each ticker, and each optimization pass on that ticker sweeps 14,625 parameter combinations — signal confidence, trend strength, stop-loss, and profit target — to read how the name is moving. Real trading runs through Alpaca, E*TRADE, Schwab, and IBKR, and paper trading as well: intraday equities, intraday options, and longer-term auto-trading.
- Thirteen years on GPC/NAPA TRACS with small teams of two or three. Wrote the online parts catalogs that generate the shops' parts income, and wrote many other parts of the system alone, including areas where that is still the specific knowledge of how they run.
- Also wrote accounts receivable, item management, customer and vehicle management, and the settings that run the shop, along with purchase-order tracking, reporting, manager dashboards for operations and financials, and telemetry monitoring — on C#, WPF/XAML, Prism, WCF, SQL Server, SignalR, Entity Framework, Web API, Telerik, and CefSharp.
- TRACS is in hundreds of shops across the US, from one-bay shops through multi-location groups: estimates through invoice, payments, and the communications technology that connects the shop.
- Local large language models, and hardware interfacing for keyboard and lighting control. Smaller products include Welch Race Companion, a live GT7 HUD.
- Founded Welch Software in 2003 after roles at Apple, Philips Mobile Computing Group, Unwired Planet (later Phone.com), and Nokia on mobile phone technology.
Education
Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science / Electrical Engineering
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT · 1988 – 1992
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- C#
- .NET
- WCF
- SQL Server
- WPF
- Blazor
- Software Architecture
- Systems Integration
- Phone & Tablet OS
- Embedded Apps