David Tsai Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Stanford, California, United States

• Volunteer course instructor. Led weekly section of 15 students in Stanford University's "Code in Place" program, an international computer science Python course offered for free across the world with 700 volunteer.
• 2024 term: Ranked #6 out of 700 section leaders on course's active leaderboard.
• 2023 term: Acknowledged by Stanford course admin as a Top Section Leader and one of the most active and helpful instructors in the cutting-edge "Just In Time" (aka "Teach Now") 1v1 mentoring system.
• Worked with Stanford computer science department staff to teach online version of Stanford's CS106A course ("Programming Methodology").
• Covered over a dozen substitute sections (every term) for fellow Section Leaders who couldn't make it to their own sections.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Launched MVP game prototype via data-driven product management. (Unity 3D, C#, Game Design)
• Spearheaded user persona analysis and Steam market research to cut product discovery and feature design time by 500%, shaving 3 months off production schedule. (Asana, Python, Agile/Scrum)
• Increased UI navigability by 200% by conducting UX evaluations and iterating fast, easy-to-use UI. (Figma, UI/UX)
• Cultivated global Discord community to better understand user experience, leveraging metrics to inform feature planning and prioritization, manage specifications, and maintain a living Product Requirements Document and.
• Rallied team productivity by 200% by clearly communicating with cross-functional team of programmers, designers, and artists.

• Boosted revenue YOY by successfully forecasting social media trends, boosting competitive advantage.
• Grew user base YOY by solving customer pain points and continuously improving customer experience.

Westport, CT

• Led inter-departmental team to establish new foreign exchange (FX) analytics methodology and build new Bloomberg app, which resulted in 200% higher accuracy in the analytics pipeline.
• Increased revenue by $3 million by building an ETL tool for processing incoming pricing feeds.
• Recommended and designed systems for portfolio equities and positions valuation using.NET stack.
• Trained in company's intense 6-month "Investment Associate" in-house Front Office training course, gaining exposure to the Front Office, familiarity with buy-side investment strategies, acquisition of alpha vs. beta.
• Spearheaded reformation of group’s SWAT Team for executing tactical projects.

Tokyo, Japan

• Won approval for a €15 million European private equity fund by co-authoring investment proposal to bank’s risk committee.
• Directly advised CIO on technology revamp of 9 problem areas for buy-side private equity group.
• Contract engagement.

Cambridge, MA

• Increased Eclipse IDE search speed by 300% by architecting UI plug-in with fast-search.
• Designed & prototyped mock UIs with well-organized search results and ease of navigation.
• Iteratively conducted usability & heuristic evaluations to ensure UI was fast, accessible, and easy to use.

Tokyo, Japan

• Increased ThinkPad security by 75% by implementing Kerberos cryptography in BIOS password manager.
• Thrived in a uniquely foreign office culture. Quickly adapted to an international work environment.

Cambridge, MA

• Developed a program that examines a region on a dense 3D mesh and simplifies it on the fly, producing a mesh hierarchy while keeping track of correspondence mappings between mesh levels. Increased mesh generator speed.

Cambridge, MA

• Grew revenue by $2 million by designing and developing prototypes of eLearning tools, with a focus on meeting U.S. Department of Defense's SCORM specifications.

Minneapolis, MN

• Overhauled "West LegalEdcenter" Online Store, improving the business team’s efficiency by 60%.
• Captured the budding online Continuing Legal Education market in 4 U.S. states, growing revenue by $500,000 by overhauling business logic.

S.B. (Bachelor Of Science), Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Including: • MIT Sport Taekwondo • MIT Kendo Club • MIT 6.270 - Autonomous LEGO Robot Design Competition

High School, Gpa: 4.0 / 4.0 (Rank: 1 / 486); Sat: Math: 800 / 800, Verbal: 710 / 800

Activities and Societies: Including: • Debate captain (4 yrs): Led team of 10 to win several 1st place prizes in state/regional.