Kim Tang
Senior Kdb Solution Architect at KX
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Tang is a Senior kdb+ Solution Architect with 11 years of experience building low-latency, high-frequency trading systems across major banks and trading firms, now at KX in Hong Kong. He combines deep expertise in kdb+/Q with C++, Matlab and R to design and optimise time-series platforms, having led FX and market-data teams at J.P. Morgan, Millennium and multiple stints at Bank of America. An active open-source contributor, Kim authored utilities like BTick (a behaviour-tag-pattern kdb+ system) and PyKDB to bridge kdb+ and Python, reflecting his focus on practical tooling that improves developer workflows. His background as a quant and PhD-trained researcher gives him a rare blend of rigorous quantitative thinking and production-grade engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of Cologne
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (56)
mutation10
dataflow9
dep9
portable9
kdb9
mxnet9
julia9
embedpy9
python8
deep-learning8
jupyter-kernels8
cross-entropy8
machine-learning8
openai-gym8
scala8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kimtang/qxl
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
kimtang/proto
Dec 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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