Summary
Songxiao Zhang is a senior software engineer and technology leader at BlackRock, currently Vice President of Aladdin Wealth Tech and tech lead of the Proposal Engineering Group. With 11 years of experience, he specializes in portfolio optimization and risk analysis platforms for wealth clients across North and Latin America, Europe, and Asia, delivering highly available microservices on JVM stacks (Scala, Kotlin, Java) and data pipelines with Spark, Cassandra, and Solr. He designs and operates end-to-end systems including a home-grown risk calculation engine, real-time ETL with Kafka, and API-driven services on hybrid infrastructure (on-prem, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP). His leadership spans collaborating with data scientists, client teams, and product groups, and he brings mathematical rigor from NYU Courant through teaching assistant roles in data science. Based in New York, he combines finance-domain expertise with hands-on software engineering to ship scalable, auditable systems that balance performance, reliability, and risk.
12 years of coding experience