José Donato

Building data visualizations for traders

Head of Data Visualization at Hydromancer, building charts for Hyperliquid data. Before that, founding engineer at OpenBB (2021–2026), where I architected and built OpenBB Workspace from the ground up.

Trading × Web × AI

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José Donato

Highlights

OpenBB Workspace

Analytics platform that sits between a BI tool and a terminal. Used by quants, fund managers, and analysts for data visualization, AI-powered analysis, and interactive dashboards - all running in the browser with enterprise-grade security.

Pyth Integration Demo

Cryexc Orderflow Terminal

Browser-based crypto trading analysis platform with footprint charts, multi-exchange orderbook aggregation, DOM ladder, and tape feed. Built with C++ and Dear ImGui compiled to WebAssembly for native performance.

Trading Infrastructure Side Projects

Built 10+ trading infrastructure tools: real-time orderbook aggregators, futures arbitrage scanners, L3 order reconstruction systems. All open source. Go backends with WebSocket streaming, frontends in React or Dear ImGui (C++) compiled to web via Emscripten depending on performance requirements.

Cryexc

Browser-based orderflow terminal for crypto traders. Features footprint charts, multi-exchange orderbook aggregation, heatmaps, DOM ladder view, and tape feed. Compiled from C++ with ImGui to WebAssembly for native-level performance.

C++ · Dear ImGui · WebAssembly

Cryexc Alerts

Real-time Telegram alerts for crypto market liquidations, whale moves, and significant price action across multiple exchanges. 560+ subscribers.

Go · DuckDB · Telegram

PageKit

A minimal browser extension for Chrome and Firefox with essential web utilities: dark mode toggle, page-to-markdown conversion, and color picker.

JavaScript · Shadow DOM · Manifest V3

Crypto Orderbook

Multi-exchange real-time orderbook aggregator with Go backend streaming live data from 9+ exchanges (Binance, Bybit, Kraken, OKX, Coinbase). Provides aggregated views, stats, and market depth analysis. Built for traders who need to see cross-exchange liquidity in one place.

Go · React · Vite
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Latest writing

Hydromancer logo with José Donato, Head of Data Visualization

Joining Hydromancer

After five years at OpenBB and a year building Cryexc on the side, I'm joining Hydromancer as Head of Data Visualization. Here's why, and what happens to Cryexc.

04-11-2026
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Trading Infrastructure Lab

Cryexc Alerts

Real-time Telegram alerts for crypto market liquidations, whale moves, and significant price action across multiple exchanges. 560+ subscribers.

Go · DuckDB · Telegram

Crypto Orderbook

Multi-exchange real-time orderbook aggregator streaming from 9+ exchanges. Go backend, WebSocket streaming.

Go · WebSocket · React

Arbitrage Scanner

Detects price gaps across exchanges in real-time.

Go · WebSocket · lightweight-charts

L3 Order Estimator

Reconstructs individual order queues from L2 data using K-means clustering.

Go · D3.js

Flowsurface

Open-source crypto derivatives market analysis (contributor).

Rust · Iced · WebSocket

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Journey

2026–

Head of Data Visualization

Hydromancer

Building charts for Hyperliquid data. Hydromancer collects all of Hyperliquid's data and serves it to the teams building trading products on top of it. More on why in Joining Hydromancer.

2021–2026

Founding Engineer

OpenBB

Led the development of OpenBB's web products: openbb.co (marketing, Remix), docs.openbb.co (documentation, Docusaurus), my.openbb.co (hub platform, Remix), and most importantly OpenBB Workspace, the enterprise analytics platform. Workspace sits between a BI tool and a terminal — an interface layer for data visualization and AI-powered analysis with interactive dashboards. Stack: React, TailwindCSS, Zustand, Tanstack Query.

2018

Master's in Informatics Security

University of Coimbra

Received an FCT research scholarship to study web vs native application performance on mobile devices. The thesis showed that web apps could match native performance in most scenarios - which proved prescient, since most of my professional work since 2021 has been building high-performance web applications. Published research on cybersecurity topics, some of which is on my blog. Final grade: 19/20.

Master's Thesis — Read thesis →
2017-2021

Freelance Fullstack Engineer

Built credentialing systems and mobile apps for Queima das Fitas (one of Portugal's largest festivals) handling thousands of attendees with QR code entry systems. Shipped ruc.pt, a nationwide radio website built with Next.js and WordPress/GraphQL, plus various web apps for international clients via Upwork. Stack: React Native, Next.js, Firebase, TailwindCSS.