Joey Yu
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Yu is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with a decade of experience blending quantitative research and software engineering across top trading firms and tech internships. Trained at Waterloo (BS) and Carnegie Mellon (MS), Joey has moved from algorithm development and quant trading at HRT, DRW, Citadel, and Tower Research to applied AI work, bringing a probabilistic, experiment-driven mindset. He enjoys clever privacy-preserving protocols—evident from his interest in distributed statistics problems like ring-based averages and private medians—and describes himself playfully as a "professional coin flipper." Based in San Francisco, Joey excels at turning mathematical insights into production-ready systems and thrives at the intersection of algorithms, statistics, and scalable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
pymongo9
mongodb9
python8
odm8
backend7
freebsd7
mapper7
sandbox7
orm7
linux6
computer-science5
javascript1
mmo1
browser1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kobortor/kobortor.com
May 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
kobortor/Competitive-Programming
Jul 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:579 commits, 403 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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