Hao Deng
KDB Project Lead at Brevan Howard
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Deng is a KDB project lead and senior programmer with 10+ years driving low-latency quant and data platforms at leading firms like Brevan Howard and Squarepoint Capital. He brings deep expertise in Q/Kdb, functional languages (Haskell, APL), Python backends and performance-oriented C/C++/Java work, grounded in a strong academic background from Peking University. Hao’s career began in game development and tooling—shipping console and mobile titles and building in-house editors—which gave him a rare combination of real-time systems experience and pragmatic tooling instincts. He routinely architects high-throughput data solutions, mentors teams, and bridges mathematical foundations (category theory, relation algebra, type theory) with production engineering. Based in New York, he is known as a quick learner who turns abstract algebraic ideas into concrete, maintainable systems for trading and analytics.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
2nd bachelor, computer science., 2nd bachelor, computer science. at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (176)
ripgrep10
uwsgi10
python10
bash10
fuzzy10
vim10
python-client10
spacemacs10
command-line-tool10
javascript10
unix10
sublime-text10
editor10
keyboard10
kakoune10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
co-dh/VintageLines
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Relative line numbers for Sublime Text 2's Vintage package
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
vintagerelativetextmateline-numberssublime
co-dh/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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