Wai Wong
Data Scientist
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWai Wong is a data scientist and tech founder with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over two decades of experience building enterprise software and research-driven algorithms. He co-founded and led the technical and quantitative investment teams at a Shanghai FinTech, growing the group to 20+ engineers and delivering containerized microservice platforms and automated portfolio strategies that spawned multiple patent filings. His background blends ten years of academic research—publishing algorithms in top venues—and 17+ years of hands-on engineering across Java, Spring, Python, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and cloud-native deployments. He has taught distributed systems and advanced CS courses at multiple universities, bringing pedagogy to production-grade architecture and mentoring. Pragmatic in Agile delivery, he has repeatedly converted research prototypes into commercial services for finance and data management. Based in Hong Kong, he combines deep concurrency and systems expertise with applied ML for asset allocation and precision sales.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University
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Github Skills (30)
python9
discounts9
plm8
alpaca8
python-client7
elasticsearch-client7
glm7
nlp7
image6
elasticsearch6
nsattributedstring6
uinavigationcontroller6
uibutton6
nsmutablearray6
tabbarcontroller6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Mastering-Elasticsearch-7.0
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Mastering Elasticsearch 7.0, published by Packt
Contributions:67 commits, 16 PRs, 66 pushes in 6 months
packtkibanamasteringelasticsearchpublished
wtwong316/Mastering-Elasticsearch-7.0
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Mastering Elasticsearch 7.0, published by Packt
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
packtkibanamasteringelasticsearchpublished
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