Matt Shen
Developer & Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Shen is a developer and data scientist with five years of experience applying analytics and software engineering to finance, portfolio management, and business operations. He combines statistical modeling (Northeastern Master's) and practical ETL/web-app skills (Django, Python, SQL) to deliver dashboards, predictive models, and LLM-integrated applications that speed decision-making for investment teams. At Eventide he built Bloomberg-integrated tools that cut research time for biotech investments, and his recent open-source security contributions to ByteDance’s Elkeid show a penchant for hardening production systems beyond typical data science work. Comfortable across cloud platforms (GCP/Azure), BI tools, and ML toolchains, he pairs technical depth with clear cross-functional communication shaped by early client-facing roles. Now leading data and AI development at Laifu Vault, he focuses on turning computation into insight rather than just numbers.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Analytics in Statistical Modeling, Master's degree, Analytics in Statistical Modeling at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Shihezi University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
it-security10
kernel10
ids10
kernel-module10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
security10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
bytedance/Elkeid
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Elkeid is an open source solution that can meet the security requirements of various workloads such as hosts, containers and K8s, and serverless. It is derived from ByteDance's internal best practices.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 126 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the security features of the Elkeid project. Their work included fixing vulnerabilities related to kernel modules, addressing potential race conditions, and implementing IPv6 support. The user also modified the code to handle potential memory leaks and corrected type definitions to ensure the system's stability and robustness. Furthermore, they made several improvements related to the anti-rootkit functionality.
security-requirementsserverlessedrawsrasp
openvelinux/kernel
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
ByteDance kernel for use on cloud.
Contributions:2 commits in 2 days
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