Yuao Zhao
Data Engineer
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuao Zhao is a data engineer based in Fremont, California with eight years of analytical and engineering experience and 3+ years focused on building scalable data infrastructure. Currently at Meta, Yuao combines a strong academic foundation from Columbia (MS Data Science, Applied Analytics) with hands-on modeling and production skills developed across finance, healthcare, and consulting roles. Past projects include improving inflation forecasting accuracy by 17% using FQGLS, extracting economic topics from FOMC materials via LDA, and implementing predictive models and sentiment analysis for healthcare and investment strategies. Comfortable moving between research-grade statistical methods and production pipelines, Yuao has demonstrated an ability to translate complex models into actionable business insights. Colleagues would describe them as detail-oriented and empirically driven, with a penchant for squeezing extra accuracy out of time-series and NLP workflows.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, International Business, Bachelor's degree, International Business at Central University of Finance and Economics
Github Skills (2)
jekyll-theme5
jekyll5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aolueur/alphathon-gmm
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
GMM Model for Alphathon
Contributions:57 PRs, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
Richard-PengR/Richard-PengR.github.io
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:77 pushes in 13 days
jekylljekyll-themestepsjalpcflexible
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