Derek Jia
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Jia is a Senior Data Scientist based in San Francisco with 8 years of experience applying quantitative methods to consumer and trading problems. He has built production-grade models and data pipelines at Google and earlier startups, including deploying hundreds of XGBoost models and a Monte Carlo simulation for NFL markets that processed iterations in under 8 seconds. Derek’s background at SIG as a quantitative researcher grounds his work in market making, options pricing, and systematic trading strategies, while his dual Wharton/Mathematics degrees reflect a blend of finance intuition and mathematical rigor. He excels at turning messy web and provider data into scalable feature stores and has a knack for optimizing Unix-based production systems. Outside work he signals a personable curiosity—“loves food, loves data”—which often inspires pragmatic, user-focused modeling choices.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Finance, Bachelor's Degree, Finance at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (2)
object-detection1
computer-vision1
Github contributions (5)
derekdjia/AI_Generated_Recipes
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:231 commits, 222 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
derekdjia/DrivenData
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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