Kaishen Wang
Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolKaishen Wang is a software engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building low-latency, system-level and algorithmic solutions at top-tier quant and tech firms including Citadel Securities, Citadel, Microsoft, and Google. He holds both a BEng in Computer Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from UIUC with a 3.9 GPA, and has taught as an undergraduate TA, reflecting strong foundations in operating systems, networking, and algorithms. At Citadel Securities he focuses on production-grade software where performance and reliability matter, leveraging deep systems knowledge alongside algorithmic rigor. His background spans internships at major tech companies and sustained work in high-stakes trading environments, highlighting an ability to move from research-level concepts to battle-tested implementations. Colleagues would describe him as quietly effective: academically rigorous, pragmatic in engineering trade-offs, and adept at optimizing both code and systems for scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
481reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (20)
scanner9
r-package8
janitor7
dynamic-programming6
dns6
dns-lookup6
dataframe6
word-break6
undefined-behavior6
cli5
pydata5
data-cleaning5
pandas5
python5
coredns4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kaishenwang/Concepts
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
kaishenwang/kaishenwang.github.io
May 2020 - Apr 2022
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Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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