About Me

I graduated from Cornell University with a bachelors in computer science. My personal interests include software development, game theory, statistics, and finance.

I have previously worked at Google, Cutler Group, and also Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Not looking for a job.

Work Experience

Software Engineering Intern @ Google - Summer 2023:

• I worked for the Youtube Shorts Creation Backend team, working on improving search suggestions and rankings related to shorts using C++ and Python.
• Created more personalized search suggestions for the Shorts Audio Picker (content creation tool) by creating a pipeline to feed data from users’ shorts viewing history into its search suggestion model.
• Added search indexing for a new music classifier better fit for YouTube Shorts for use as a retrieval and ranking signal across various search applications in YouTube.
• Adapted a separate search ranking model to work with YouTube Shorts as well, allowing new, trendy songs to appear higher in YouTube Shorts related search results.

Quantitative Trading Intern @ Cutler Group - Summer 2022:

• I conducted research for Cutler Group, an options market maker that traded around 1% of the U.S. equity option volume.
• Analyzed extremely hard to borrow stocks to see if Merrill Lynch’s loan rate is predictive of the terminal stock price through time with pandas, NumPy, statsmodels, and MySQL.
• Helped increase profitability by analyzing trades across various factors and developing insights into edge retention and trade quality.
• Attended daily classes consisting of options theory education and mock trading.

Software Engineering Intern @ Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) - Summer 2021:

• I developed software for the Alfresco Content Services team, which helps store and manage over 30 billion financial documents for FINRA analysts to use while regulating the market.
• Rewrote automation tests with Typescript, Selenium, and Cucumber, which allowed my team to migrate to an newer version of their 3P frontend framework.
• Expanded backend test coverage by 10% by writing new JUnit tests in Java and Mockito.

Skills

• Advanced: Modern C++, Java, Python, gRPC, Protobuf, Git, Mercurial
• Familiar: SQL, Javascript/Typescript, Rust, C, x86 Assembly, Pandas, sklearn, PyTorch, NumPy, Tensorflow, HTML, CSS, R, Docker, Linux

Awards

• Cornell & FTX Trading Competition, 1st Place (Spring 2022)
• Cornell Athletics Letter Winner (2020)
• Dean’s List (2020-2022)
• 18 & Under World Top 100, 100 Butterfly LCM (2019)

Interests/Hobbies

• Backend Development
• Game theory
• Statistics and machine learning
• Financial markets
• Lifting
• Poker
• Valorant
• Teamfight Tactics