Cheng-tao Chu
Founder CEO at Chu's Wine
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolCheng-tao Chu is a seasoned software architect and founder with 12+ years building high-performance research, simulation, and trading infrastructure for top-tier quantitative firms and startups. He led engineering initiatives at Cubist (Point72) and Tudor to unify research and live trading workflows, delivering systems that span from high-throughput batch research to low-latency production trading. Prior roles at Codecademy, Square, LinkedIn and Google reflect deep cross-domain experience in machine learning, analytics, fraud detection and search relevance, and his 2006 NIPS paper underpinning Apache Mahout has been cited widely. As a repeat founder he has shipped interview and e-commerce platforms and now runs Chu's Wine, applying product and systems thinking to hospitality. Based in Mountain View with an MS from Stanford, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering that prioritizes rapid ideation-to-production cycles. An unexpected thread across his career is a consistent focus on unifying tooling and interfaces so domain experts can drive production without heavy engineering overhead.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
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Github contributions (3)
chengtao/settings
Mar 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 years 2 months
Codecademy/EventHub
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:122 commits in 4 months
analyticsanalytics-platformevent-source
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