# Katherine Wu

> Systematic Investment Research | UCLA Anderson MFE ’26 | Factor Strategies • Python • Stochastic Calculus | Summer 2026 Internship

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/katherinewu

Interested in building systematic investment strategies and applying quantitative methods to markets. Currently at UCLA Anderson, MFE '26.

Recently built a multi-factor portfolio backtest on S&P 500 stocks (2000-2025) with a 1.19 Sharpe ratio (vs 0.50 benchmark). Previously, I spent 1.5 years at Azibo building data infrastructure and analytics systems for 10,000+ customer accounts.

Looking for Summer 2026 internships in systematic investing and quantitative research.

Factor investing • Time series analysis • Backtesting • Python • SQL

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Azibo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Worked in the growth team to build a document hosting service for the company’s first partnership, using REST APIs, AWS S3, and a third party API. Worked with the VP of Marketing to define and support new updates to the data pipeline. Additionally, designed and built an email service ingesting data from Kafka streams, and integrated Sendgrid for marketing emails, simplifying email setup and delivery.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Azibo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Implemented pipelines using Kafka streams to migrate data hosted in ElasticSearch to the new stack using BigQuery. Improved workflow by implementing error tracking with Rollbar and creating a Slack app for internal service updates. Constructed a service and data pipeline in 3 months to create internal records and update CRM.

### Summer Intern @ exaAI Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara County, California, United States
Installed and set up three testing pipelines for Parabricks genome sequencing.
Corresponded effectively with the client to successfully install the testing system within two weeks.


## Education
### Master's degree in Financial Engineering
UCLA Anderson School of Management

### Computer Software Engineering
App Academy

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Bryn Mawr College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katherine-wu-ca

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Last updated: 2026-03-29