Timothy Guo
Software Engineer at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Guo is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack and ML-driven systems, currently on the options team at D. E. Shaw in New York. A Regents Scholar at UC Berkeley and former co-president of Blockchain at Berkeley, he blends deep technical skills (USACO Platinum, Java, JavaScript, React/React Native, Node.js) with product and org leadership across fintech, crypto, and AI research. His background spans shipping production systems at Google and PayPal, building trading and arbitrage bots at Galaxy Digital, and deploying RL agents and PyTorch–Minecraft integration under Stuart Russell at CHAI. He has led multi-disciplinary teams to win grants and hackathon awards, redesigned smart contract architectures for UNICEF projects, and scaled club recruitment and retention programs by 300%. Known for bridging research and production, he often pairs algorithmic rigor with practical engineering to move prototypes into live services. Outside of work he pursues social entrepreneurship and accessibility projects that apply technology to real human needs.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyIrvine Valley CollegeLaunchX Entreprenurship Summer Program, LaunchX Entreprenurship Summer Program at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySage Hill School
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (54)
swap10
cosmos10
jupyterlab10
jupyter9
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jupyterlab-extension9
avalanche9
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jupyter-widget9
dex9
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aptos8
sage8
wolfram-language7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sagehillprosthetics/sageprosthetics
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Sage Prosthetics Website
Contributions:3 releases, 45 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
prostheticssage
BerkeleyBlockchain/satchel
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Satchel leverages a crowdfunding framework to bank underbanked communities that may lack access to stable financial climates, but have access to the internet.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
financialleveragesdappethereumcrowdfunding
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