Oustan Ding
Quantitative Research Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOustan Ding is a Quantitative Research Engineer based in New York with eight years of software engineering experience and a strong foundation from the University of Waterloo. He has transitioned from high-impact internships at Bloomberg, Jane Street, and Citadel into a full-time quant research role at Citadel after co-founding and technical-leading a startup, demonstrating both product instinct and institutional rigor. Comfortable across research and production, he blends low-latency trading-system sensibilities with large-scale software practices gained at fintech and cloud-forward teams. Notably, his trajectory includes repeated returns to elite quant environments and entrepreneurial work, suggesting an engineer who thrives at the intersection of rigorous math, systems performance, and shipping real products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme 42/45, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme 42/45 at Bayview Secondary SchoolBachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
parking10
dance9
heat9
map-generator9
perlin-noise8
portal7
sms7
webapp6
pulseaudio6
spotify-api6
web-application6
firebase5
nextjs5
python5
django5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OustanDing/ProjectErie
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Lake Erie pollution heat map generator based on crowdsourced SMS reports
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
lakereportspythonmap-generatorheat
YashArora0606/RehumanizeDating
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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