# Johnny Saldana

> Software Engineer @ RocketReach

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

Software engineer at Rocketreach working on core-data and platform
Johns Hopkins double major in Computer Science & Economics

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer 2 @ RocketReach.co
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Core Data/Platform team developing high-performance backend services, large-scale data ingestion solutions, site performance optimizations, and AI products

### Founder & President @ Johns Hopkins Quantitative Finance Society
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
- Co-founded and led a graduate quantitative finance organization; managed 20+ student researchers (including 8 PhD students) under faculty advisor Professor John Miller
- Directed development and backtesting of systematic trading strategies, driving end-to-end research from idea generation to performance evaluation
- Gave regular presentations to 100+ JHU students; WorldQuant Challenge Semi-Finalist

### Junior Analyst @ Resolve Growth Partners
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
- Built dozens of custom retention models for investment leads
- Organized and built CRM system containing thousands of sourced company leads
- Worked on ACTO & HelpLightning deals

### Partner @ A-Level Capital
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
A-Level Capital, LLC is a venture capital firm with over $350K in AUM investing in early stage, capital-efficient companies with ties to Johns Hopkins.

### Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow @ The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Conducting independent financial economics research under Professor Jonathan H. Wright, sponsored through the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program.

### Executive Delegate @ U.S. Department of Education
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
As an executive delegate representing the Greater Boston Area on the Massachusetts State Student Advisory Council I helped develop and spearhead numerous campaigns to reform the state education system from a student perspective.

•       Led project to identify school districts with outdated wellness policies and discovered that over 24% of districts failed to conform to state regulations.
•       Collaborated with principals and superintendents of school districts to update and revise their wellness policies.
•       Co-developed a campaign to help Boston schools engage in the mental health crisis afflicting our schools

### Data Science Intern @ Empower Schools
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
•	Developed and led a research project to analyze accountability and performance data of over 150,000 students in the Lawrence and Springfield school districts.
•	Investigated the correlation of student outcomes, GPA, standardized testing scores, and demographic variables using Python machine learning to create predictive models of student success.
•	Developed a classifier that predicted student college outcomes with 80% accuracy.
•	Presented research to the Empower Schools CEO/Founder and executive staff.

### Data Science Intern @ Curoverse, Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
•	Conducted research to classify eye-color using machine learning (Python scikit-learn) on tiled genomes and data from the Harvard Personal Genome Project.
•	Developed a classifier that predicted eye-color with 95% accuracy and presented published research at the Harvard I2B2 TranSMART Symposium (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1045265).   
•	Investigated machine learning and data wrangling techniques to find genes that may contribute to hair color expression, myopia, colon polyps, and Rh factor.


## Education
### B.S. Computer Science and Economics
The Johns Hopkins University

### Commonwealth School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnny-saldana-300b29145

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Last updated: 2026-03-29