Richard Ling

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Software Engineer | Data Scientist With 7 years of Mechanical Engineering background. @ Blue Water Macro Corp
San Francisco, CA, US
Richard Ling's Location
San Francisco, California, United States, United States
About Richard Ling

Data Software Engineer with strong data intuition, leveraging data analytics and technology to drive innovation and solve business objectives. Experienced in end-to-end ML model development, data research, extracting insights using quantitative approaches, and building efficient data ingestion pipelines. Skilled in evaluating AI responses for continuous improvement. An excellent cross-functional team player, known for thinking outside the box and wearing multiple hats.Few adjectives from peers:Persistent, meticulous, people-person, compassionate, risk-taker, creative.Hobbies:-Reading on new technologies, Traveling, Cycling, Snowboarding, Hiking, Badminton, Basketball, Bouldering, Rock Climbing, Airplane Spotting, Karaoke.

Richard Ling's Current Company Details
Blue Water Macro Corp

Blue Water Macro Corp

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Software Engineer | Data Scientist With 7 years of Mechanical Engineering background.
San Francisco, CA, US
Employees:
7
Richard Ling Work Experience Details
  • Blue Water Macro Corp
    Blue Water Macro Corp
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Blue Water Macro Corp.
    Data Software Engineer
    Blue Water Macro Corp. Jun 2021 - Present
    • Developed trading strategies in Python, yielding positive returns for clients by leveraging proprietary linear regression techniques on economic and stock features. • Deployed trading models into GCR and their corresponding features in to Google Storage Buckets. • Applied quantitative analysis and created back-testing model to assess the strength and risk of each feature in trading strategies.• Strengthen strategy performance through continuous data research and developing innovative quantitative techniques, leveraging research papers and team brainstorming.• Built automated data ingestion pipeline using FactSet, Bloomberg, web scraping and other financial vendor APIs, totally over 500K raw records, into Postgres database. • Contributed to financial LLM training and enhancement by creating and evaluating over 500 prompts, including testing codes in SQL, Python, and question prompts, ensuring accurate and concise responses.• Created an automated daily trade execution tool using the Interactive Broker Python SDK and trade signals from GCR, streamlining the trading process.• Implemented an automated daily update email for clients, featuring trading signal, bar-charts of trading features KPIs, and a strategy performance table. Used Python, HTML, Google Email.
  • Mesh
    Data Engineer
    Mesh Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    • Developed stock recommendation model using linear-regression and a forecast model to assess whether users’ portfolios outperform or underperform the S&P500 benchmark. Used Python.• Applied quantitative analysis methods to stock and cryptocurrency to extract key insights, such as performance trends and correlations, to improve both the recommendation and forecast models. • Built and maintained data pipelines to collect 10K+ stock and cryptocurrency data from Alpaca, Refinitiv, Polygon, Messari, and web sources into Azure Data Studio for ML models and data analysis.
  • Hackathon
    Water Quality Monitoring With Drones (Hack The Bay And Delta Project)
    Hackathon Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
    • Built an algorithm with Folium and Scipy to map water sample locations and show water quality health level (1-safe to 5-avoid) contour to the user.• Used Time-Series model on a given precipitation measurement to forecast water quality levels for 2 days into the future. • Collaborated with UX/UI designer to optimize webpage interface for users.
  • Project
    Lane Detection Project
    Project Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
    • Built an algorithm with OpenCV to detect traffic lanes in a video • Applied Gaussian Blur, Canny function and Hough Transformation to identify lanes.
  • General Assembly
    Data Science Immersive Students
    General Assembly Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
    New York, Ny, Us
    12 Weeks, 480+ hours, of Data Science training program.(Deep Learning, machine learning, statistic modeling and analysis, E.T.L)Capstone Project: Car Classification with Imagery (Auto-enVision) ** - Built and deployed a CNN car image classification model with 98% accuracy, leveraging a TensorFlow, into a web application. Pretrain Model. Use Python, Pandas, NumPy, Flask, HTML and Heroku.- Built a data pipeline to gather images, processed images and stored them in a local folder to be access by the machine learning model. Used Python, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, NumPy, PIL and PyPlot. Client Project: Flood Detection with Imagery (Flood Bank)-In a group of 3, developed a flood classification algorithm and flood detection with pretrained model to filter flooded images and then use it approximate its flood depth. -Built a web scraper tool to gather flooded images. -Used LabelImg for image labeling and used Roboflow’s Yolo-v3 Pytorch pretrained model for flood detection.-The model achieved accuracy of about 70% with 1000 images and demonstrated the capabilities of the concept. -The leading group who thought outside the box and went beyond project requirements.Housing Price Prediction (Houstradamus) -Created a Linear Regression algorithm to predict housing prices with the given features of the house.-Performed exploratory data analysis to extract import features and data cleaning of the data. -Incorporated feature engineering and regularization to minimize mean-square-error.-Achieved 2nd in the leaderboard within my class and 4th within General Assembly Data Science classes.
  • Ametek Surface Vision
    Mechanical Engineer
    Ametek Surface Vision Sep 2015 - Feb 2020
    Hayward, California, Us
    • Improved shipping delays by 80% from developing a data tracker to forecast customer needs and initiating production ahead of schedule. Used Excel and Exact Macola 9.• Optimized 10+ assembly BOMs by more than 30% and reduced production cost by 50%. Analyzed/revised part designs and worked with assemblers to identify areas of overdesign and material redundancy. Used Solidworks, 3D printer, Excel, and Exact Macola 9.
  • Gillig
    Mechanical Engineer
    Gillig Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
    Livermore, Ca, Us
    -Successfully implemented a harness safety cover into driver footwell from concept into production by working with drivers to understand their driving discomforts and movements. -Executed a customer order of over 10 buses for worth over $500K+ by working with the customer to custom fit a special camera to the exterior wheel panel.
  • Nasa Ames Research Center
    Mechanical Engineer
    Nasa Ames Research Center Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
    Moffett Field, California, Us
    -Researched and developed calibration mounts for helicopters swashplate assembly for wind-tunnel testing. -Designed hardware capable for wind-tunnel testing by doing FEA simulation against the maximum vibration estimated by analyzing the wind-tunnel dataset.-Collaborated with team members and machinists to improve, optimize and reduce the cost of the calibration mount
  • Hantel Technologies, Inc.
    Research/Development Mechanical Engineering Intern
    Hantel Technologies, Inc. Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
    Hayward, Ca, Us
    -In a team of four to research, design and develop a suture device for a heart surgeon.-Performed FEA on the suture device using Solidwork to withstand an impact of 4pounds. -Cooperated with the team and client to optimize the final design for ergonomic and material.-Performed drop test and penetration test on suture device to ensure the rigidity of the device.
  • San Jose State University
    Project: Motorcycle Chassis And Suspension Design
    San Jose State University Sep 2012 - May 2013
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    -Computer designed a motorcycle chassis capable of two 200lbs battery packs, a 300lbs electric motor, two axles and a brake system for each wheel to convert a motorcycle to a 3 wheeler.-Simulated and optimized suspension setup with spring stiffness and damping characteristics to achieve maximum vertical acceleration of 0.058G for best comfort.

Richard Ling Education Details

  • General Assembly
    General Assembly
    Data Science Immersive
  • San José State University
    San José State University
    Mechanical Engineering
  • University Of California, Davis
    University Of California, Davis
    Mechanical Engineering

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Richard Ling attended General Assembly, San José State University, University Of California, Davis.

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