Ding Zhao
VP - Quantitative Researcher
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDing Zhao is a VP-level quantitative researcher and software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade analytics and trading infrastructure at BlackRock, currently driving strategy innovation within Quantitative Alpha. He brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering—previously as a senior engineer in ETF and index research—and applied research skills from his CMU master's in Information Networking. Ding has a track record of shipping data-driven web tools and real-time systems, from market-signal dashboards to mobile-friendly feedback and voice-driven attendance classifiers developed during his academic work. Comfortable across Python, web stacks, and systems administration, he translates complex statistical models into reliable, auditable pipelines used by portfolio teams. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs institutional finance experience with an academic computing background and a pragmatic focus on operationalizing research.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Exchange Program Electrical and Computer Engineering, Academic Exchange Program Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster’s Degree Information Networking, Master’s Degree Information Networking at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's Degree Electronic and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronic and Communication Engineering at City University of Hong Kong
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (8)
machine-learning1
extraction1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
computation1
feature-extraction1
speaker-recognition1
speaker1
Github contributions (5)
LollipopLollipop/FlappyBird-SpriteBuilder
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 2 months
wedrinklatte/dzhao.info
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.