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our friends in corporate: “why is your branding pink and why do you have children’s pics for customer support profiles?” our customers:
our friends in corporate: “why is your branding pink and why do you have children’s pics for customer support profiles?” our customers:
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Many companies are using specialized OLAP databases for analytics. These technologies are impressive, but my gut tells me that in the future, all…
Many companies are using specialized OLAP databases for analytics. These technologies are impressive, but my gut tells me that in the future, all…
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Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Volunteer
Riverstone Home Owners Association
- 2 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Supported residents affected by Hurricane Harvey by completing a post-Hurricane cleanup process (remove hardwood floors, dry wall, insulation, fumigation) on over 10 residential properties
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Volunteer
All Saints Episcopal Church
- Present 5 years 1 month
Poverty Alleviation
Help prepare, cook, and serve free home-cooked meals to Austin's homeless and working poor every Friday.
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Volunteer
Gamma Beta Fraternity, Inc.
Health
Raised over 300 dollars through selling made-to-order omelettes for the Jade Ribbon Campaign, an organization that serves to educate Asian Americans on the dangers of Hepatitis B
Honors & Awards
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3rd Place - Future of Work Hackathon
YGC Ventures
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2nd Place - HackUNT
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2nd Place - LeapHacks
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1st Place - BP Natural Gas Trading Competition
British Petroleum
- Used a combination of fundamental & technical analysis to predict natural gas prices within BP's commodity trading simulator
- Generated close to 24 million in P&L with a standard deviation of returns below 4%.
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1st Place - DECA ICDC Stock Market Game
DECA
- Achieved >70% return within a 3 month period using quantitative & technical indicators
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1st Place - Quantopian Case Competition
UFA & MISA
- Used Pandas & NumPy to program a trading algorithm based off a mean variance & moving average analysis
- Returned > 300% over the S&P 500 within a 15 year period while maintaining a beta of .20 and a Sharpe Ratio of 1.03 -
1st Place - Startup Simulation
Asian Business Students Association
- Pitched a startup that uses big data & internet of things to help farmers reduce water usage
- Designed a Neural Net that uses data from UAV modeling, ground sensors, and national weather APIs to direct retrofitted irrigation systems to efficiently dispense water. -
3rd Place
Tamu Datathon
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4th Place - Texas Stock Pitch
University Securities Investment Team
- Pitched Enterprise Products Partners, a midstream oil & gas company to a panel of professionals from the financial services industry
- Used a variety of GAAP & non-GAAP quantitative models such as the dividend discount model & net asset value model to project equity price -
Finalist
HackTX
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HackTX Finalist
Freetail Hackers
Languages
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Mandarin Chinese
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Cantonese
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
Organizations
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Gamma Beta
Design Chair
Gamma Beta is a fraternity dedicated to the betterment of men through morality, discipline, responsibility, unity, and academics.
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Texas Convergent
Business Operations Analyst
As UT’s first interdisciplinary entrepreneurial organization, Texas Convergent aims to equip students, of differing disciplines, with the necessary skills and resources to drive the future of innovation.
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Texas Financial Derivatives
Vice President
Texas Financial Derivatives is UT's premier high level derivatives trading organization. The club educates students interested in trading about risk management & hedging techniques, trading methodologies, and derivative pricing while creating a community that connects the network of traders around the UT campus.
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Texas MMA
Instructor
Texas MMA is an organization that provides an outlet for martial arts enthusiasts to train on campus. Instructors lead weekly workouts centered around multiple disciplines such as Greco-Roman Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muy Thai, and Boxing.
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What an incredibly cool YC company Ares Industries is. Shout out to Devan Plantamura and Alex Tseng
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Have been learning a lot about how online ad auctions work and it's fascinating! Did you know that you can sell ad space at a premium just by…
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Anyone who auto replies AI slop under my posts will now be blocked and banned!
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pgvector is great (we use it too) but many people who are shilling it over other vector databases don't properly consider the limitations behind the…
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I want to give a HUGE congrats to my friends Sachin S. and Philip Kung! Their startup, Sweetspot (YC S23) just raised $2.2M to help people and…
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