Kevin Jin

Hoboken, NJ 07030

Education

New York University

B.S. Finance & Statistics, Stern School Computer Science, Courant Institute

8/2013–5/2017

New York, NY

GPA: 3.74/4.0
3.95/4.0 in FINC, STAT, CSCI
Electives: Macroeconomics, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Equity Valuation, Debt Instruments, Derivative Securities, Linear Algebra, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Numerical Computing, Stochastic Calculus, Time Series, Statistical Inference and Regression Analysis, Operations Management
Studied abroad in Shanghai, China from 8/2014–12/2014

Freehold High School

High School Diploma, Computer Science Academy

9/2009–6/2013

Freehold, NJ

GPA: 3.9/4.0
Weighted: 4.82/4.3
Top 2%
SAT: 2300 (770 Reading, 780 Math, 750 Writing)

Work Experience

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Analyst, Quantitative Strategies, Securities Division

7/2017–Present

New York, NY

Equities Quantitative Volatility Trading Strats: enabled participation in blind price improvement and routing exposure auctions on BATS EDGX and NYSE AMEX exchanges; increased team's total Request For Quote response count by 2%

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Summer Analyst, Quantitative Strategies, Securities Division

6/2016–8/2016

New York, NY

Equities Electronic Market Making Cash Trading Strats: reproduced the output of two proprietary cross-sectional multi-factor risk models and tested the explanatory power of every factor return series with Python
Equities Quantitative Volatility Trading Strats: improved execution performance of high-frequency trading system by implementing a linear classifer in C++ that decides which exchange connection in a pool has the lowest latency; picked appropriate lock-free primitives to minimize contention in highly concurrent routine; optimized features and weights

ZAIS Group, LLC

Quant Research Intern, Portfolio Management Team

5/2015–8/2015

Red Bank, NJ

Independently did research on news sentiment, time series lead‐lag, and network analyses to generate novel models for CDX HY index constituents; implemented and backtested low frequency trading strategies in R
Presented an algorithm that clustered companies into communities coextensive with GICS sectors, using only a set of CDS points upfront time series as input; now adapted to discover unknown relationships in networks
Explained to traders a time series comparison algorithm I found that detects to what extent and how consistently one series leads or lags the other by matching peaks and troughs; now in the process of being applied to housing statistics

Bad Rabbit Consulting

Software Engineer; System Administrator

5/2013–5/2015

Hoboken, NJ

Provided Huron‐Click® Portal tech consulting for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in eResearch domains; liaised with medical research experts to resolve 226 enhancement and bug fix tickets in 834 billable hours
Led development and architecting work of a C# web service to automate releases to QA and production systems; liaised with admins to implement the full procedure that saves each client ~10 billable hours per week

Extracurricular Activities

Quantitative Finance Society

Analyst, Quant Portfolio

3/2015–5/2017

New York, NY

ArgonMS

Project Maintainer

10/2008–5/2013

Marlboro, NJ

Redesigned and optimized Java‐based massively multiplayer online game server emulator; launched a testing server
Achieved 30 days of uptime with 20 concurrent players, sub‐30ms latency, and sub‐100mb memory usage
Managed an enthusiastic community (>100 members) that assisted in identifying bugs

Honors

1^st place University of Chicago Midwest Trading Competition Options market maker case

Chicago, IL

4/2015

2^nd place JPMorgan Chase & Co. Code For Good Challenge NYC 2015, Best technology

New York, NY

10/2015

1^st place American Computer ScienceComp. Sci. League All Star Competition, 5 person Senior Division (international, postseason)

Freehold, NJ

5/2012

1^st place American Computer ScienceComp. Sci. League Northern Division, 5 person Senior Division (regional, regular season) [x2]

Freehold, NJ

5/2013, 5/2012

1^st place New Jersey Institute of Technology High School Programming Contest (regional) [x2]

Newark, NJ

3/2012, 3/2011

Interests & affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery
Tech@NYU
Hackathon competitions
Quantitative Finance Society
Business Analytics Club
Case competitions

Skills – server applications

Java (Expert)
C# & Visual Basic .NET (Expert)
C++ (Strong)
Unix shell scripting (Working)
Windows PowerShell (Working)

Skills – web design

JavaScript & jQuery (Expert)
MySQL (Expert)
HTML (Expert)
CSS (Expert)
PHP (Strong)

Skills – analytic

VBA macros (Expert)
R platform (Strong)
Bloomberg Terminal (Working)
Distributed computing (Working)
ElasticSearch (Working)

Skills and Interests

Skills

Java
C#
Bash shell
SQL
JS
HTML
CSS
VBA macros
R
Bloomberg Terminal

Interests

Machine learning
Natural language processing
Distributed computing
Hackathons
Cycling