Sam Damashek
Co-founder & CTO at Zoa Research
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Damashek is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building high-performance systems, currently co-founding and serving as CTO of Zoa, an AI trading lab backed by Y Combinator S24. A CMU Computer Science alumnus, he spent several years at Jane Street developing applied ML algorithmic trading strategies across NYC and Hong Kong and stood up a satellite dev team for Asia options markets. His background blends low-latency systems and security—ranging from user-space network drivers and performance engineering to encrypted collaboration software and intrusion-prevention tooling developed during earlier research roles. Comfortable across C, OCaml, C++ and distributed systems, he has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production under tight operational constraints. Based in New York, he pairs quant-driven forecasting ambitions with practical systems engineering, and maintains a public site (sdamashek.me) that surfaces his work and thinking.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (64)
irc-bot10
python10
discord10
django10
css10
ionic10
sasl10
intranet10
irc10
modular9
dataframe9
dataframes9
polars9
threaded9
extensible9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ircpuzzles/scoreboard
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:80 commits in 1 month
phpregistrationscoreboardregistration-system
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