Horace Z.

Education

• Master of Computer Science, University of Oxford (10/2020 – 08/2021)
• Bachelor of Actuarial Science and Computer Science, University of Hong Kong (09/2015 – 02/2020)
• Graduated first in class with a GPA of 4.16/4.3.
• Exchange Programs, University of California, Berkeley (06–08/2016, 01–05/2018)
• Completed intermediate CS courses (Algorithms, AI, Security) with a GPA of 3.95/4.0.

Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Quantcast, London (10/2021 – Present) - Optimized a distributed bidding engine handling 2M+ transactions/sec, led AWS cost-saving initiatives, and built a control system for pacing multimillion-dollar ad budgets.
• Data Engineer, OKX, Hong Kong (05/2021 – 08/2021) - Built real-time data pipelines for crypto trading and managed distributed cloud storage.
• Data Engineer, Imagine Software, Hong Kong (06/2020 – 09/2020 - Developed backend pipelines for enriched financial data and explored LSTM models for stock prediction.
• R&D Intern, SenseTime, Hong Kong (06/2018 – 08/2018 - Developed a real-time portrait relighting program for Android, accelerated using OpenCL and CUDA.