Summary
Da Shen is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across backend, frontend, databases, UI/UX and graphics design. He has driven large-scale advertising backend services at Amazon and developed distributed trading systems and proprietary messaging, admin, and trading portals at CME Group. Now based in New York, he is building AI agents at Foresight to solve hard, investor-focused problems, blending algorithmic thinking with polished user experiences. His early work includes a self-led intern project that used Neo4j, Oracle, Python and D3 to automate and visualize complex system analysis—an effort touted for its potential to save thousands of analyst-hours annually. Combining a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UIUC with advanced AI study at Columbia, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with a designer’s eye for usable, attractive interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Columbia University
Physics Pre-engineering, Physics Pre-engineering at Ohio Wesleyan University
Japanese, Chinese, English