Xinran Zhang
Data Scientist Tech Lead, Tiktok Shop
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXinran Zhang is a Senior Data Scientist at TikTok Shop with eight years of experience blending quantitative finance, fintech, and data analytics. Trained in Operations Research at Columbia and with early exchange study at UC Berkeley, she brings rigorous modeling skills and hands-on Python/SQL expertise developed across roles at Goldman Sachs, asset management firms, and fintech startups. Her background spans financial modeling, credit-risk productization using location-based data, and algorithmic trading strategy development—she even backtested a private-placement strategy that produced >26% annualized returns. Comfortable translating complex analytics into business-facing materials, she has a proven track record of turning raw data into valuation, risk, and trading insights for both institutional and consumer finance contexts. Based in Shanghai, she combines cross-border finance experience with a product-oriented data science mindset focused on measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Exchange Program at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Economics Finance, Bachelor of Economics Finance at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityMaster of Science - MS Operations Research, Master of Science - MS Operations Research at Columbia University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (31)
hexo8
cpp6
react6
drag-and-drop6
cli5
pytorch4
image-recognition4
webpack4
vue4
vue-cli4
frontend3
electron3
css3
javascript2
html2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
samcw/ResNet18-GhostNet
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
samcw/qiuyang-website
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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