Tim Gong
Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Gong is an experienced portfolio manager and quantitative researcher with over a decade in equity alpha and alternative data research, currently leading portfolios at Balyasny Asset Management. His career blends deep risk analytics—rising from risk analyst to Deputy Chief Risk Officer—with hands-on engineering roots in real-time network management software from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Tim has repeatedly translated large-scale, messy data into actionable trading signals and portfolio insights, overseeing both alpha capture and firm-wide risk frameworks. He holds advanced training in computer science and attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, reflecting a rare combination of technical, quantitative and business acumen. Based in Naperville, IL, he is notable for moving fluidly between research, risk and portfolio execution, bringing an engineer’s precision to high-stakes investment decisions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (14)
pandas10
data-science9
python9
manipulation9
data-analysis9
frame9
data-structures9
dataframes9
data-manipulation8
twitter3
nlp3
natural-language-processing2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cfgong/statemigrations
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
cfgong/spotifygenre
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:71 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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