# Ed Young

> API Platform Engineer at Blackrock

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/edyoung

I'm a Platform Engineer who's passionate about developer experience and enablement, as well as enabling developer-adjacent technologists (e.g. data scientists, financial modelers, and more).

## Work Experience
### Vice President (Sr. Software Engineer I) @ BlackRock
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Associate (Software Engineer III) @ BlackRock
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Transitioned BlackRock's partner-facing APIs from a bespoke homegrown infrastructure to Apigee, enabling BlackRock to further monetize our APIs and provide improved analytics, telemetry, access control, and request validation on incoming API requests, as well as improve API platform stability and uptime

Designed and implemented an RFC 8693-compliant OAuth 2.0 token exchange flow in conjunction with several other internal teams to federate authentication with external IDPs and prevent cross-client access to APIs and underlying data

### Analyst @ BlackRock
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improved and enhanced an internal BlackRock Python package used by quantitative researchers and portfolio managers (PMs) to identify undervalued investments and monitor portfolio performance, including functions to remove seasonal variation in data streams and adding Windows and macOS support

Wrote installation script for global team of researchers and PMs to setup their existing remote development environment on their Windows and macOS machines (i.e., enabled users around the world to localize their previously remote-only Red Hat server environment, reducing latency by 60-80%)

### Summer Analyst - Aladdin Products Group (APG) @ BlackRock
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Brought interactive performance tracking tool in-house from a third-party vendor for BlackRock’s largest mutual fund (with $44bn AUM) and added support for international users ahead of a global roll out 

Led a team to construct a mock portfolio as part of BlackRock’s Portfolio Challenge, creating a risk-parity portfolio that outperformed the Russell 1000 by 10 percentage points with a lower risk profile

Assisted BlackRock's Ethical, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing team by researching index providers' ESG index offerings

### Tech Lead @ Napkin
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led a team of 6 to create an Android application that fetches recipes from APIs based on ingredients the user has on hand

Implemented a naïve wine-suggestion algorithm to recommend a wine pairing for the selected recipe based off of a recipe’s ingredients

Created app icon and logo, and simplified app’s look and feel to improve usability and ensure design consistency based on prior experience and best practices

Integrated APIs in a loosely-coupled, object-oriented manner with use of Singleton and Builder patterns

Setup and ran weekly scrums, along with the project lead, to track progress and milestones

### Analytics Engineer @ Kikin, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater New York City Area
Assisted startup focused on intelligent search by creating a more user-friendly mobile browser and search experience and doubled the number of users to nearly 40,000 during internship tenure

Tracked and categorized users by behavioral patterns (e.g., search frequency and clickthrough rate) to improve product and customer usage

Reported findings by developing and maintaining an automated, on-demand reporting dashboard and providing customized spreadsheets to analytics team using Django, jQuery, and Postgres

### Sales Associate @ Esprit Holdings, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater New York City Area
Assisted customers with inquiries, created and designed outfits, and have generated repeat business

Netted over $12,000 of sales within first month and once accounted for one sixth of the store's daily sales

### Volunteer, Central Supply @ Hemet Valley Medical Center
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Volunteered 4 hours a week; duties included restocking and delivering supplies, as well as cleaning and sterilizing medical equipment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
San Francisco State University

### Computer Science
Cornell University

### Hemet High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/edwinwyoung

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Last updated: 2026-04-05