Qinglin Li
Quant Trader (Cryptocurrency) at Self-employed
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolQinglin Li is a quant trader and developer with 12 years of experience building high-frequency and crypto trading systems, currently based in Hong Kong and leading open-source tooling like the Binance Datatool. He combines rigorous academic training (Northwestern MS with a 4.0 GPA) and hands-on engineering across HFT infrastructure, backtesting/live trading stacks, and portfolio management for equities and derivatives. His background spans machine learning and computer vision research at SJTU and Microsoft Research Asia, plus product-focused data science work driving user-growth systems at consumer startup StarMaker. Qinglin publishes technical and creative work—writing on Mirror and sharing portraiture photography on Xiaohongshu—reflecting a blend of quantitative rigor and aesthetic curiosity. Notably, he maintains active involvement in both institutional HFT operations and self-directed crypto strategy development, while preferring opportunities outside Mainland China.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, ACM honored class, 3.5/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, ACM honored class, 3.5/4.0 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (24)
python10
trading10
finance10
bitcoin10
exchange10
fintech10
algotrading10
api10
cryptocurrencies9
crypto9
ethereum9
binance9
php9
cryptocurrency9
trading-bot8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lostleaf/lostleaf.github.io
Apr 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:136 pushes, 14 branches in 6 years
lostleaf/neo_trend_backtesting
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
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