Victor Sheng
Advisor Data Scientist
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Sheng is an experienced data scientist and advisor with 14 years blending quantitative finance, product management, and applied ML across firms from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to Elevance Health and YC-backed Hive Health. He has deep domain expertise in counterparty portfolio management—helping optimize collateral, initial margin and regulatory capital—and has translated that into technical product and analytics infrastructure on IA tech teams. Victor pairs rigorous academic training (MS in Data Science, Harvard; BS in Financial Engineering, Columbia) with hands-on engineering, evidenced by backend contributions to an open-source Telegram library. Comfortable moving between research, production ML, and trading-floor constraints, he’s known for turning complex regulatory and risk problems into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Based in Mountain View, he brings a rare mix of quant modeling, product ownership, and open-source backend development.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.93/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.93/4.00 at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Financial Engineering, 3.85/4.00 magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Financial Engineering, 3.85/4.00 magna cum laude at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHinsdale Central High School
Github Skills (11)
c1710
data-structures10
c1110
telegram-api10
data-structure10
cryptography9
api-design9
crypto9
crypt9
algorithm9
networking8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vysheng/tgl
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
telegram library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 156 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Victor appears to be focused on building the backend for the Telegram library, as suggested by the commit messages "tgl: initial commit" and the code changes in `binlog.c`, `queries.c` and `structures.c`. Their work includes implementing core functionalities such as setting up the core data structures. They have also made contributions to the functionality for secret chats, which suggests a deeper involvement in the core features of the library.
telegram-bottelegrammtprototelegram-apitelegram-client
vysheng/tl-parser
Nov 2014 - Jan 2021
Parse tl scheme to tlo.
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 2 months
schemeparsingtloparser-generatorparser
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