Summary
Ryan Liao is a systems-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building low-latency, high-performance software and firmware across trading, robotics, and energy domains. Currently an incoming Core Developer at Hudson River Trading, he has interned at Citadel, Tesla, NVIDIA, and HRT where he worked on equities trading platforms, energy firmware, GPU drivers, and research tooling. A Modern C++ enthusiast based in Ann Arbor and a Computer Science student at the University of Michigan, he blends deep systems programming skills with practical hardware-adjacent experience. Comfortable in low-level optimization and real-time constraints, Ryan brings an engineer’s attention to latency and correctness while also contributing to research-oriented platform work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Taipei American School
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, Chinese, Japanese