Yanzhe Li
Student Researcher And Curriculum Developer at Wisconsin School of Business
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYanzhe Li is a data-driven researcher and curriculum developer at the Wisconsin School of Business with nine years of experience applying quantitative tools to business and financial analysis. He combines hands-on skills in Excel, Python, and R with domain experience from auditing and industry research to forecast performance, screen stocks, and visualize insights that inform investment and strategic decisions. Beyond academia, he contributes to open-source cloud-native tooling—enhancing certificate management and ACL testing in a popular Kafka operator—bringing practical backend engineering experience to data problems. Fluent in sustainability research and course design for large-enrollment classes, he translates complex technical findings into actionable learning and business recommendations. Based in Madison, he’s open to roles that bridge business analysis, data strategy, and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Economics; Business Certificate; Data Science Certificate, Bachelor's degree, Economics; Business Certificate; Data Science Certificate at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
kafka10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cert-manager10
apidoc9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
banzaicloud/koperator
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Oh no! Yet another Apache Kafka operator for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Yanzhe primarily contributed to the `koperator` project by implementing and refining features related to certificate management and access control for Kafka clusters. They added the ability to use external issuers for certificates and modified the handling of CA certificates. Further contributions included the integration of `patternType` for ACLs and implementing comprehensive testing for various combinations of access types and pattern types, enhancing security.
apache-kafkaoh-noapacheoperatorcruisecontrol
YanzheL/llzw
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Simple full-stack shopping site powered by Spring and Angular
Contributions:14 releases, 465 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 5 months
spring-bootshopping-sitefull-stackspringangular
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