Zhengnan Zhao
Associate Director, Quantitative Developer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolZhengnan Zhao is an Associate Director and quantitative developer with 10 years of experience building production-ready analytics and modeling systems, now based in Boston. He combines deep Python and PyData expertise with a background in financial engineering to translate quantitative research into clean, maintainable code that stakeholders trust. His career spans top firms including Two Sigma, Capital One, and Arrowstreet, where he has led engineering efforts bridging modeling, data science, and production deployment. An advocate for clear documentation and reproducible tooling, he contributes to open-source projects such as Dask—improving docstrings and examples to help scale parallel computing adoption. Comfortable in both individual contributor and leadership roles, he’s known for effective communication that accelerates collaboration between engineers and business teams. His training in financial engineering plus hands-on software craftsmanship enables him to deliver auditable, high-impact quantitative systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Financial Engineering, Master’s Degree Financial Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree Economics, Bachelor's Degree Economics at New York University
Chinese, French, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
dask10
python10
documentation10
doctest8
numpy7
pandas7
algorithm6
anaconda6
macos6
bash6
dataframe6
matplotlib6
batch-processing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dask/dask
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Parallel computing with task scheduling
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 9 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Zhengnan primarily contributed to documentation updates and improvements within the Dask repository, specifically focusing on docstrings and general documentation of the code base. The user's commits include changes to docstrings, examples, and the structure of the documentation. The user also fixed documentation related to task schedulers. Additionally, the user removed skip directives from doctests in several files.
pythonschedulingparallelnumpydask
conda-forge/iscan-feedstock
Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
A conda-smithy repository for iscan.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
iscanplacementcondasmithy
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