Victor Xu
Co-Founder at SaaS - Financial Services
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Xu is a data-driven entrepreneur and analytics leader with a decade of experience building products at the intersection of finance, ML, and full-stack engineering. As co-founder of a market-leading alternative financial data SaaS in San Francisco, he combines hands-on Python/SQL development, model-building (from tree-based methods to deep learning), and cloud deployment to turn messy data into business-facing insights. His background spans founding early-stage startups in consumer and sports analytics, leading growth analytics and experimentation, and executing financial analysis at private equity—showing a rare blend of product intuition and quantitative rigor. Victor is comfortable across the stack (React/Node, Docker, Airflow, AWS) and has repeatedly improved decision-making via instrumentation, data warehouses, and causal A/B testing. Notably, he ranked #1 for predictive accuracy at RotoML, reflecting a practical focus on measurable outcomes rather than model novelty.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Level 1 Passed on Scholarship, Level 1 Passed on Scholarship at CFA InstituteBachelor of Engineering Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering Science, 3.8/4.0 at Western UniversityHonors Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, 3.8/4.0, Honors Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, 3.8/4.0 at Ivey Business School at Western University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (139)
web-application10
python10
design-patterns10
system10
deep-learning10
scale10
webapp10
nlp10
anki10
large-scale10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
qt9
compressor9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Peppershaker/PlugY_Save_Monitor
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Prevent Diablo II mod PlugY from corrupting saved games through automated interval backup and restore.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
incrementalgamesmoddiablo-ii-modinterval
Peppershaker/crunchbase_csv_exporter
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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