Kefei Dan Zhou

My name is Kefei Dan Zhou, recently graduated from the university of pennsylvania with a BSE degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.

I'm a generalist programmer with strong experiences (and interests) in linux systems, trading technologies and algorithms. Currently I am learning about capital markets and the quantitative side of finance. I've had some pretty interesting jobs over the last few years. During the spring of 2009, I worked with team Invite Media, creating media trading technologies and learning tons from some of the best developers I've ever met.

I'm passionate about solving problems through technology. I want to tackle some of the world's more important problems someday and make a difference.

I currently work at Citi Global Markets.

~ Last updated. oct 20, 2009. Kefei Dan Zhou.

I've had some interesting jobs over the last few years. All of the jobs centered around software development, many of them involved trading technologies.

<WORK>

Invite Media - 2009 - software engineer

I worked with a team of brilliant engineers to create large-scale, real-time ad serving platform. We used agile development methodologies and coded in python. With such talented team I wasn't surprised to see the company grow by leaps and bounds during one of the worst economic crisis in history. -> website

Goldman Sachs - 2008 - technology analyst intern

I worked with the US Shares team of Equity Trading Technology during the summer. I enjoyed working at GS despite 2 hours of commute everyday (from 120th to jersey city). During the short ten weeks, I had the opportunity to learn about one of their very profitable trading algorithms, and I developed (from scratch) software to monitor and manage the firm's opening and closing cross business on the NASDAQ.

Group One Trading - 2007/08 - quantitative risk analyst intern

During the one and half years with the G1 Philly team, I had the chance to get involved in a range of trading related projects. I helped create their firm-wide distributed reporting/analysis system, worked on mock trading software, and learned about really cool (automated, high-freq, arbitrage) quantitative trading. -> website

Locobuzz - 2006/07 - cofounder

A web 2.0 startup to create a campus event listing and ticket sales webservice. While the company collapsed after a year without gaining much momentum, it was a great experience for all of us involved. Two of the founders later went on to start another (infinitely more successful) company called Invite Media. -> ~~alpha site~~

<PROJECTS>

Senior design (anonymity framework)

A portable, high-performance framework for accessing A3 anonymity network. Technologies involved: distributed hash table, network coordinate system, randomized algorithm, and virtual network devices. If you ever wonder how much information websites can find out about you just for visiting, take a look.

Artificial Neural Network

Background project of mine for few years. Developed feedforward artificial neural net (and later cascading) for my currency trading that have yet to pay off.

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