Summary
Kaishi Sun is an experienced UI/UX and frontend architecture leader with 11 years building complex web platforms for quantitative investment and trading businesses across major financial institutions in London. Currently Executive Director and QIS UI/UX Chapter Lead at UBS, he previously led frontend architecture and design for Credit Suisse’s QIS and ISG platforms and served as London UI lead for BlackRock’s front-office analytics. He combines deep technical fluency in React/Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js and Kotlin with product-focused design skills in Figma and Tailwind to deliver high-fidelity, production-grade analytics and trading tools. Known for standardising UI design languages and shipping mission-critical interfaces like indexing, rebalancing and risk reporting apps, he bridges quant finance requirements and elegant UX. An AI enthusiast and full-stack practitioner, he blends frontend craftsmanship with data-driven decision-making informed by an MSc in Financial Computing.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA International Business with German, BA International Business with German at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
University College London
Chinese, German, English