Cong Xu
Platform Engineer
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCong Xu is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and data-focused tooling, currently at Citadel after multi-year engineering roles at Bloomberg. He brings deep Python expertise and full-stack data skills spanning SQL, ETL, data cleaning, and applied ML with scikit-learn, rooted in dual master’s degrees in Bioengineering and Computer Science. His background combines academic research—developing single-molecule detection platforms—with production-grade platform engineering in high-performance finance and media environments. Comfortable bridging research and ops, he’s known for turning messy, heterogeneous data into actionable pipelines and reliable platform services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology, General, 3.6 / 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General, 3.6 / 4.0 at Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (32)
pytorch10
xgboost10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
data-science10
statistics10
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
standardized10
sklearn10
client-go10
k8s10
data-analysis10
kubernetes9
llm-inference9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xcjason/test
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
xcjason/gitML
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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