Joey Zhao
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Zhao is a software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building backend systems and financial tooling across fintech and cloud-monitoring domains. He’s worked at Datadog and Amazon after several roles developing trading and data pipelines at J.P. Morgan and boutique finance firms, bringing deep familiarity with databases, AWS, and production-grade services. His academic background in finance and a master’s in Mathematics of Finance help him bridge quantitative problems and practical engineering solutions. Joey has a history of shipping domain-specific tools—Outlook add-ins, data migrations, and permissioned web apps—that reveal an eye for operational efficiency and trader workflows. He approaches problems with intellectual humility, channeling a Socratic mindset into continuous learning and incremental improvement. Based in NYC, he combines financial domain expertise with cloud-scale engineering to deliver pragmatic, reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
None, Media Creativity, None, Media Creativity at Communication University of ChinaBachelor of Science (BS), Finance, General, Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance, General, Mathematics Minor at University of DelawareM.A., Mathematics of Finance, M.A., Mathematics of Finance at Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (57)
monitoring10
debugging10
lambda-functions10
hugo10
javascript10
observability10
stackdriver10
tracer10
bytebuddy10
python10
net-library10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
aws-lambda10
dotnet10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
joeyzhao2018/LearnNetty
Jun 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
joeyzhao2018/joeyzhao2018.github.io
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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