Chao Ma
Quantitative Researcher
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Ma is a quantitative researcher with nine years of experience melding classic time-series econometrics and modern machine learning to build tradable signals and robust trading infrastructure. His background spans Google software engineering to VP-level quantitative strategy at Goldman and hands-on quant development at hedge funds, where he delivered alpha research, backtests, and production C++ trading servers atop AWS/Linux stacks. Comfortable with TAQ/TRTH microstructure, fundamentals like Non-GAAP AFFO, and niche macro influences such as Farm Bill effects on commodities, he pairs domain intuition with rigorous stats—often preferring R for heavy inference and Python for production work. He prototypes in tmux/nano and Jupyter, uses Streamlit for dashboards, and brings practical DevOps experience (conda/ansible) to bridge research and deployment. Unusually for a quant, his PhD in computational biology and early bioinformatics training inform a probabilistic, data-centric approach to modeling and signal construction.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High schoolPh.D. Computational Biology, Ph.D. Computational Biology at University of PittsburghB.S. Bioinformatics, B.S. Bioinformatics at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
sqlite10
image10
manager10
ffmpeg10
gif10
wpf10
controls9
wpf-controls8
xaml8
csharp8
relativepanel7
baidu6
openldap6
statistics6
desktop-application6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hitchao/jvedioupdate
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
hitchao/Jvedio
Dec 2019 - Jan 2025
Jvedio 是本地视频管理软件，支持扫描本地视频并导入软件，建立视频库， 提取出视频的 唯一识别码，自动分类视频， 添加标签管理视频，使用人工智能识别演员，支持翻译信息， 基于 FFmpeg 截取视频图片，Window 桌面端流畅美观的应用软件
Contributions:20 releases, 8 PRs, 393 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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