Yu Tang
Quantitative Strategist
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Tang is a Quantitative Strategist at Goldman Sachs with seven years of experience blending software engineering, machine learning, and quantitative finance. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Duke and a dual B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from UIUC, and has applied academic research in NLP and ML to practical systems from hedge fund middleware at Citadel to endowment investing at Duke Management. Yu is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects—adding tracing and RPC support to OpenTelemetry, enhancing API gateway resilience in Apache ShenYu, and integrating distributed transactions for Hmily—which underscores his focus on observability, distributed systems, and robust backend services. At Goldman he specializes in equity volatility and credit risk modeling, pairing quantitative rigor with production-grade software practices. Not obvious from his title: he has led course instruction as Head TA for an NLP graduate course and frequently bridges research ideas into deployed infrastructure. Based in the New York metro area, he blends research pedigree with hands-on engineering across finance and open-source ecosystems.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaDuke UniversityBachelor's degree, Dual Degree: Computer Science · Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Dual Degree: Computer Science · Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
transaction10
rate-limiting10
apache-dubbo10
netty10
circuit-breaker10
instrumentation10
java10
javas10
transactionscope10
rpc10
go10
api-gateway10
distributed-transactions10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/shenyu
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Apache ShenYu is a Java native API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion and API governance.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:252 reviews, 59 commits, 150 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yu's commits focused on adding a Sentinel plugin, which involves implementing rate limiting and circuit breaking functionality for the API gateway. This involved creating new Java classes for handling rules, and configuration related to the Sentinel integration. The changes include modifications to the core plugin configuration and Spring Boot starter components to support Sentinel. The user's contributions also extended to fixing bugs in the Sentinel plugin.
api-gatewaykong-pluginproxyshenyugrpc-proxy
apache/dubbo-go-pixiu
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Based on the proxy gateway service of dubbo-go, it solves the problem that the external protocol calls the internal Dubbo cluster. At present, it supports HTTP and gRPC[developing].
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 76 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yu primarily contributed to the Dubbo-Go-Pixiu project by enhancing test cases within the `response` filter package and merging code changes from the 'develop' branch. They modified the `response_test.go` file to enrich test coverage by including comprehensive test cases for `DubboMapResponse`, `DubboMapHumpResponse`, and `DubboSliceResponse` functions. Additionally, the user integrated changes from the 'develop' branch, demonstrating an understanding of code integration and potentially bug fixes, and configurations related to the API gateway service.
api-gatewayrpcdevelopingproxygrpc
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