Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in backend engineering and building automated trading systems. Proven ability to design, develop, and deploy high-performance, scalable, and reliable systems. Proficient in Python, Flask, Database, R Language, as well as financial markets and trading algorithms.

Experience

2021 — NowBig Data Federation, Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2021 — Now

San Jose, California, United States

Developed a fully automatic trading system to manage a private fund, covering US and international markets and executing sophisticated trading strategies based on real-time market signals.

Developed 10+ trading modules for equities, options, foreign exchange and futures markets, enabling the system to execute 20+ types of orders including algo trading orders.

Created 20+ market data endpoints and deployed on AWS, providing high-quality real-time market data.

Improved system stability, resulting in 99% uptime hence significantly reduced the workload of maintenance. Also transition away from having a 24/7 on-call support team, resulting in substantial cost savings.

Integrated third-party APIs, brokerage gateways and financial data sources to expand platform functionality.

Implemented backtesting and optimization frameworks for recurring evaluation and refining trading

strategies, resulting in consistently outperforming the market baseline by an impressive 2-3%.

Managed over 50 million trade records daily with a dedicated database and built high-performance RESTful APIs to facilitate swift data storage and retrieval.

Created cloud-based database server on AWS EC2 from scratch, using Clickhouse database — a

renowned open-source solution well-suited for handling substantial volumes of time series data with

SQL-like queries. Crafted dedicated scripts for data cleaning and seamless ingestion processes.

Built robust APIs using Flask to exploit both raw and aggregated data for making trading decisions and training prediction models.

Optimized database queries and API logic, reducing API response time by 50% and ensuring the

performance when users requesting multi-million rows of data.

2019 — 2021Big Data Federation, Inc.Software Engineer

2019 — 2021

Leveraged Python Flask and a JavaScript charting library Highcharts to build data visualization pipeline, translating market data into trading insight. Integrated data delivery to Slack chatbot and Twillio SMS service

Deployed and maintained web backend APIs on AWS, accomplished with a robust CI/CD tool Jenkins

Collaborated with data scientists and trading strategists, delivering profitable strategies with high-quality code

2018 — 2019MoBagelSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2019

Implemented robust RESTful APIs to handle HTTP requests for an enterprise-facing AI system

Combined Python web framework Flask and MySQL database to build highly efficient and stable backend services

Worked in Cloud environment ie. AWS to host flexible and scalable backend services

2013 — 2015FoxconnProject Manager

2013 — 2015

New Taipei City, Taiwan

Worked on ODM projects to develop Windows and Android tablets

Managed whole product life cycle for NPI(New Product Introduction) projects in fast pace

Managed cross-functional team including software/hardware engineers, manufacturers and vendors

Improved development efficiency by saving 40% of development time to build new product

Built reasonable budget, product SPECs and time table with clients

Handled Return Merchandise Authorization(RMA), identified product issues and repaired products

2012 — 2012IBM Global Business Process ServicesERP Consulting Intern

2012 — 2012

Taipei City, Taiwan

Implement SAP ERP system into client’s management methods to improve the managing efficiency

Test Financial Accounting Module before fully implementation

Education

University of Washington

Master’s Degree

National Central University

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

National Tsing Hua University

Experience

Education

Master’s Degree

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor’s Degree