Summary
Zhiwei Xiao is a trading technology leader with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently serving as Director of Trading in Shanghai where he builds algorithmic trading systems. He previously served as CTO at Yunrui Financial, delivering broker platforms across Hong Kong, China and US markets, and has deep low-level tooling experience from multiple stints at Synopsys and Tencent. Comfortable across system design, profiling and high-throughput trading infrastructure, he blends hands-on coding with product-minded architecture. His background includes an M.S. in Computer Science from Fudan and a research stint at Rice, reflecting strong academic foundations paired with industry impact. Known privately as a "code ninja," he brings rare cross-domain fluency—HDL emulator and profiler work to real-time market systems—that helps squeeze latency and reliability gains in production.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sci. Computer Science, M.Sci. Computer Science at Fudan University
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at Rice University
Chinese, English, teochownese