David Ma
Quantitative Trader
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ma is a quantitative trader and MS Computer Science candidate at the University of Minnesota with 11 years of engineering experience blending software development and data-driven trading. He transitioned from full-stack and backend roles—shipping Alexa telemetry tooling at Amazon and building AEM components and ML-backed graph solutions—to a trading role at Optiver where he applies rigorous CS and mathematical skills. Comfortable across front-end, serverless, and graph/ML stacks, he has led projects end-to-end from data ingestion to UI and production APIs. His academic background in mathematics and computer science (3.86 GPA) underpins a pragmatic approach to complex problems, and his teaching experience shows an ability to explain technical concepts clearly. A Minneapolis-based technologist, he pairs production-grade software craft with quantitative thinking to turn data into actionable systems.
11 years of coding experience
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Edina Senior High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
multiprocessing6
pandas6
design-patterns6
selenium6
altair6
multi-index6
python6
dataframe6
Github contributions (5)
davidkunio/chipy-quantopian
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
davidkunio/Baseball-Data
Nov 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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