Yiming Zhao
Data Analyst
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYiming Zhao is a data analyst with 10 years of research and analytical experience, currently working at Bloomberg in Beijing and grounded in rigorous quantitative training from UBC Sauder (Master’s, 3.9). He blends hands-on data and backend engineering experience—contributing code and integration tests to the prominent Trino distributed SQL engine, including Prometheus monitoring and MariaDB timestamp support—with deep investigative due diligence skills honed at Exiger. Comfortable across international contexts, Yiming’s background spans economics, political science, and Scandinavian studies, and he brings multilingual research capabilities in English and Chinese. Curious and independent, he pairs a global perspective on finance and geopolitics with practical experience translating complex technical and compliance findings into stakeholder-ready reports.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management, 3.9, Master's degree, Management, 3.9 at UBC Sauder School of BusinessUniversity of OsloInternational Economics, International Economics at Phillips Exeter AcademyHigh School Diploma, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, High School Diploma, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Combined Major in Economics and Political Science, minor in Scandinavian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Combined Major in Economics and Political Science, minor in Scandinavian Studies at The University of British ColumbiaExchange, Political Science, Danish Language and Culture, Exchange, Political Science, Danish Language and Culture at Københavns Universitet
chinese, mandarin, English, Danish, chinese, cantonese
Github Skills (14)
javas10
databases10
test-integration10
query-engine10
sql10
java10
database10
integration-testing10
mariadb9
prometheus9
distributed-systems8
big-data8
jdbc8
analytics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
May 2022 - May 2022
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yiming contributed to the Trino query engine by implementing and testing various functionalities. They focused on integrating Prometheus, a monitoring system, into the Trino ecosystem, including writing integration tests for Prometheus. Additionally, the user worked on supporting timestamp data types within the MariaDB connector, updating JDBC drivers, and resolving issues related to timestamp handling. They also added checks to ensure proper behavior related to rename table and view operations.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
OCManager/RestServer
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
This is the adapter to call DF API and provide the REST API to frontend
Contributions:2 releases, 450 PRs, 251 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apiadapterfrontendrestrest-api
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