# Haoran S.

> Degen is my Soul

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/haorans

Blending code & curiosity, I architect digital symphonies from bytes and logic. 

USC software engineer by degree, backend maestro by passion. ✨ #CodeHarmony

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Qloo
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
• Built backend microservices using Node.js and Go for a multi-chain staking platform, processing 500K+ daily requests across staking operations, reward distributions, and validator monitoring
• Developed an AI-powered staking yield optimizer analyzing on-chain APR trends, validator performance, and slashing history across 15+ PoS networks, increasing average user yield by 12%

### Quant Developer @ Ruitian Investment LLC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Shanghai, China
● Designed and implemented ETL pipelines using PySpark in Kubernetes clusters, processing 10 TB raw stock dataset
● Developed three optimized internal tools for researchers using Python & C++, optimizing data processing time by 60%
● Implemented a scalable and efficient API service for stock data management, utilizing Python and deployed on Ruitian Cloud for increased performance and scalability
● Utilized advanced Docker features such as network and data volume management to ensure data consistency and quality

### Research Assistant @ Information Sciences Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Marina del Rey, California, United States
As a part of this job role, I enhance application performance and attract direct investment of $ 54K by executing new API routes, architecting new ORM structures, and refactoring code.
One of my key tasks is to clean/manipulate raw data and implement feature selection algorithms from 20 TB data of French election data with preprocessors.
My achievements are as follows:
● Implemented a robust application for analyzing Twitter users' demographics and psychographics using NLP and Hadoop
● Conducted MapReduce jobs on a 20 TB raw dataset from Twitter, significantly reducing data processing time by 80%
● Improved Twitter User prediction accuracy to 95% through the application of FrameAxis machine learning algorithm
● Fulfilled the $54K contract of INCAS project offered by DAPRA, meeting all expectations from the stakeholders

### Software Development Engineer @ BYU Silver Fund
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Provo, Utah, United States
During this tenure, I supported back-end communication by developing REST API.
It is worth mentioning that I initialized AWS servers and managed databases as DBA.
It was me who identified and resolved issues to streamline processes.
My key successes for this role are:
●	Developed a web-based stock risk analysis platform using Django and React to provide valuable insights for traders
●	Improved data retrieval speed by 50% from AWS through the implementation of database indexing and caching strategies
●	Deployed and maintained RDS databases to host large amounts of stock data, ensuring a routine dataflow of up to 20 Gb


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Applied Data Science
University of Southern California
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
Brigham Young University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### High School Diploma
Chengdu Jiaxiang Foreign Languages School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/haoran-shu-0214

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Last updated: 2026-04-01