Yutong Zhang
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYutong Zhang is a software engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience bridging quantitative finance and production software, currently building systems at Meta. Trained in Financial Engineering (Sichuan University) and dual master’s degrees from Duke in Quantitative Financial Economics and ECE, she brings strong numerical modeling skills and practical engineering discipline to data- and performance-sensitive problems. Her background includes implementing IVX and Three-Pass Regression Filter models from scratch, large-scale data preprocessing, and deploying Python-based ranking and crawling systems for A-share markets, demonstrating both research rigor and product impact. At Duke she taught databases, algorithms, and algorithmic trading, reflecting an ability to explain complex technical material and mentor others. Known for turning experimental factor-reduction techniques into better-than-PCA results in volatility forecasting, she blends quantitative insight with hands-on software delivery.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Financial Engineering, Bachelor's degree Financial Engineering at Sichuan UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (3)
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audio4
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yucongzh/yucongzh.github.io
Dec 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
yucongzh/online_speaker_diarization
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 16 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
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