Yifei Yu
Quantitative Developer Associate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifei Yu is a quantitative developer associate in Boston with eight years of hands-on experience blending software engineering and quantitative finance. He brings 4+ years of OO and functional coding practice, fluency in Python, R and Mathematica, and practical experience designing and maintaining SQL-like cloud databases and data pipelines. At Arrowstreet and through internships, he delivered production-ready systems for market data ingestion, anomaly detection, and multi-process backtesting that prioritized redundancy and self-checking under unstable APIs. His academic background in economics and computer science from Cornell (with an exchange at Tsinghua) informs a pragmatic understanding of pricing and portfolio theory alongside strong computational mathematics. He has taught machine learning and market design courses, reflecting an ability to translate complex technical concepts for others. Colleagues would describe him as someone who pairs quantitative rigor with engineering discipline to turn research ideas into reliable, scalable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Cornell UniversityExchange Program, Economics, Exchange Program, Economics at Tsinghua UniversityHigh School Diploma, 4.1 out of 4.3, High School Diploma, 4.1 out of 4.3 at Beijing National Day School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
dynet4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
makecode3
microsoft-research3
neural-network2
microsoft2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yawendeng1/3300Proj1
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 23 days
yanfeiyu/info3300-spr2018
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
data-drivenweb-applicationsdata-driven-web
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