Danxuan Han

Quant Developer
8years in tech
5years with pySpark
2.5years average tenure
5years at Magma Capital Management LLC

Overview

Data engineer and Python developer with 7+ years of experience building data-intensive systems for quantitative finance. Focused on large-scale financial market data pipelines, parallel processing, data quality, and analytical storage such as BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Also built supporting feature computation and machine learning workflows for financial time series analysis.
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Timeline

Quantitative Developer - Data Infrastructure · Middle
Magma Capital Management LLC · Full-Time
Sep 2021 to Present 5 Years 2 Months Chicago In office
Designed and operated a 100TB+ tick-level market data pipeline across AWS, SFTP, and on-prem NAS, organizing ingestion by trading date, exchange, and security. Built parallel Python ingestion and Parquet workflows with performance profiling and concurrency tuning. Implemented checkpointing, validation, and selective reprocessing for reliable historical migrations, plus daily incremental ingestion with monitoring notifications. Developed alternative-data ETL into partitioned Parquet and loaded results into BigQuery, supporting downstream querying and analytics.
AWS
GCP
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Redis
pySpark
Linux
Python
Associate, Developer for Fixed Income Pricing System · Middle
Jefferies LLC · Full-Time
Jul 2019 to May 2021 1 Year 10 Months New York In office
Built a large Python pricing and diagnostics library for fixed-income instruments, covering thousands of bonds and complex structures. Implemented pricing-related analytics and error-sensitive yield computations used across teams in the U.S. and U.K. Developed Python analytics for Rates Treasury PnL attribution to support profitability analysis across hedging and trading flows.
Python
New York University
Master's Degree · Financial Engineering
2017–2019 New York, New York
Portfolio Trading and Risk Analysis Intern · Junior
Moore Capital Management LLC · Internship
May 2018 to Dec 2018 7 Months New York In office
Developed a portfolio selection approach for stock hedging, using regression-based methods to match a benchmark input. Created supporting data visualization and table formatting utilities to streamline trading analysis reporting. Worked on risk and execution-focused analysis tasks under a portfolio trading workflow.
Python
Sichuan University
Bachelor's Degree · Economics, Financial Engineering
2016 Chengdu, Sichuan

Projects

Evaluating Impact of Earning Report on Stock Prices
Nov 2018 to Dec 2018 1 Month
Built a C++ pipeline to automatically collect Russell 1000 stock data from Yahoo Finance via libcurl. Processed EPS-related inputs and computed event-study statistics using bootstrap resampling. Used gnuplot to generate and present results, focusing on reducing total runtime from data collection to visualization.

Technical skills

Languages
7
Python
C++
SQL
JavaScript
C
MATLAB
Bash
DevOps
4
AWS
GCP
Linux
GitHub
Databases
3
PostgreSQL
Redis
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
8
ChatGPT
Claude
NumPy
Pandas
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
LightGBM
Spark
Other
10
pySpark
libcurl
PyTorch C++
Bootstrap
Git
Copilot
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
ETL/ELT
Time Series

Job preferences

Work permits
United States, China
Citizenship
China
Employment type
Full-Time
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