Kent W
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent W is a software engineer with seven years of experience building production systems across cloud infrastructure, gaming, automotive, and financial domains. Currently on Google’s Cloud back-end infra team, he brings hands-on experience from roles at EA (in-game ads), XPENG (iOS and Bluetooth car-share features), and quant/developer work building margin reconciliation and risk dashboards. His background blends academic research—ML, RL, financial machine learning and applied sensing—from Columbia and University of Toronto with practical engineering, evidenced by research contributions and a published deep‑learning slip-detection study. Based in Kirkland, WA, Kent pairs rigorous data-driven thinking with a knack for shipping resilient backend services and cross-domain integrations that connect research insights to production impact.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Richmond Secondary SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, BSc - Statistics with focus on Economics, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, BSc - Statistics with focus on Economics, Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Toronto
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (47)
financial10
sec10
openai-gym10
finance10
pythorch10
stock-trading10
stable-baselines10
fintech10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
algorithmic-trading10
reinforcement-learning9
gcp9
machine-learning9
supply-chain-management9
google-cloud9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kentwhf/slip-detection-keras-i3d
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 9 months
Kentwhf/Kent-Wu
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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