Ray Zhou
Founding Partner at Blackskies Investments
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Zhou is a seasoned investment professional and software engineer, Founding Partner at Blackskies Investments in Berkeley, CA, bringing 20 years of market and tech experience. A UC Berkeley graduate in data science and economics, he blends quantitative analytics with fundamental equity research to identify opportunities for hedge funds and growth portfolios. His leadership and research track includes Equity Research Team Lead at Lighthaven Capital Management, an Equity Research Analyst stint there, and a Morgan Stanley Equity Research Summer Analyst internship, in addition to multiple student-led investment roles at Capital Investments at Berkeley. As an active open-source contributor, he worked as a back-end developer on the Sakai project, improving user authentication, caching, and user management to enhance reliability and test coverage. Based in the Bay Area, he combines startup exposure from Berkeley SkyDeck and interdisciplinary training to translate rigorous data-driven insights into investable ideas.
20 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Data Science, Pre-Business, 3.987, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Data Science, Pre-Business, 3.987 at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, 43/45, High School Diploma, 43/45 at Beijing City International School
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
authentication10
user-authentication10
sakai10
java10
testing10
lms9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Jun 2005 - Aug 2009
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:368 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ray's commits focused on modifying and enhancing the Sakai kernel, primarily within the user directory and authentication components. They addressed issues related to user caching, and improved context-sensitive user aliases, contributing to the overall functionality of user management. The contributions included adding new methods for user retrieval, and addressing the proper behavior of user display ID. The commits touched test files which may indicate responsibility for bug fixing and testing the changes.
diversesakaivlefeature-richfreely
raydavis/nessie
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Networked engines supply statistics in education.
Contributions:258 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
networkedstatisticspythonsupplyengines
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