Max Wang
Quantitative Trader
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMax Wang is a quantitative trader based in Chicago with 15 years of experience at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and trading. He holds a dual background in math and CS from the University of Pennsylvania and has blended academic research and teaching (multiple TA roles and directed reading/research programs) with hands-on industry internships at IMC and AWS. Max contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Vim JSX support and enhancing array provenance in Facebook’s HHVM—demonstrating comfort across front-end tooling and deep back-end VM internals. His work spans low-latency trading systems and developer tooling, reflecting a rare mix of production trading experience and systems-level software craftsmanship. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he brings both algorithmic rigor and a habit of refactoring legacy code to improve performance and maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
Franklin Regional Senior High SchoolPennsylvania Governer's School for the Sciences, Pennsylvania Governer's School for the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
c-language10
vimscript10
hacking10
indentation10
hhvm10
php10
cprogramming-language10
syntax-highlighting10
jsx10
backtrace9
configuration-management9
regular-expression9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mxw/vim-jsx
Oct 2013 - Sep 2019
React JSX syntax highlighting and indenting for vim.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 39 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `vim-jsx` plugin. Their contributions included improving JSX syntax highlighting and indentation, ensuring proper handling of various code structures. They refactored the code, added configuration options, and optimized the logic for better performance. Overall, the user improved the user experience by fixing various issues related to JSX code formatting within Vim.
reactreact-jsxvimjsx-syntaxhighlighting
facebook/hhvm
Jun 2011 - Apr 2020
A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:776 commits, 11 PRs, 588 comments in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the HHVM virtual machine, specifically around array provenance and its interaction with various Hack language features. Their contributions involved refactoring code related to backtraces, cleaning up type structures, and supporting array provenance for v/darrays. They also worked on miscellaneous cleanup tasks and made improvements in type structure handling for array provenance and legacy arrays.
hacklangphpvirtual-machineprogramshhvm
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