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jiayu Zhao - Software Engineer Intern in Chicago, IL

jiayu Zhao

Junior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms

Happy CashierUniversity of ChicagoChicago, IL6 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.

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Key Strengths

  • Designed and implemented backend orchestration layer between user-facing APIs and compute-heavy AI model services
  • Built asynchronous inference job workflow with reliable progress/result exposure to frontend
  • Measurement-driven performance debugging and latency optimization for production APIs (baseline ~800ms) using stage-level instrumentation
  • Experience coordinating heterogeneous services with different latency/resource profiles in distributed systems

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Experience

Software Engineer InternHappy Cashier Inc. · Jun 2024 – Aug 2025internship
Software Engineer InternBoyu International Trading Co., Ltd. · Jul 2024 – Jan 2025internship
Quantitative AnalystOrient Futures Co., LTD · Nov 2023 – Jul 2024
Quantitative Risk AnalystBank of Communications · Sep 2020 – Aug 2023
Quantative ResearcherBank of China · Jul 2017 – Apr 2018

Education

University of Chicagomaster, Computational Analytics and Public Policy (2026)
Donghua Universitymaster, Accounting (2020)
Hunan Normal Universitybachelor, Accounting (2017)

Languages

English

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jiayu ZhaoJunior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms