Summary
Joseph Zhang is a software engineer and quantitative developer with eight years of hands-on experience building data-driven tools and internal platforms at fintech and crypto firms. He has shipped production React/Next.js and backend services for Circle that support $4B in daily USDC flows and created a database query sharing tool used by 200+ engineers, and he interned in equities quant research at Citadel where he received a return offer. At Yale Entrepreneurial Society he leads recruiting and sales operations across 12 universities and 180 startups, combining product, analytics, and go-to-market tactics to scale student-startup matching. His background blends full-stack engineering, product management, and startup-building—he’s co-founded an internship platform and built automation and sourcing pipelines that handled thousands of company records. Based in New York and fluent in cross-cultural collaboration through study at Zhejiang University, he brings entrepreneurial grit and an uncommon mix of trading-adjacent quant experience with developer-first product delivery.
8 years of coding experience