Richard Hu

Experience

Quantitative Technologist · July 2026 – Present

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Quantitative Technologist · August 2023 – July 2026

Chicago, IL

Currently, I am a Platform/Infrastructure Engineer where I work on building out and scaling our internal infrastructure and compute. In the past, I worked on production engineering (US trading hours oncall, trading system configuration, trading metrics collection), DevOps (build, CI/CD), and research engineering (research reconciliation, research productionization).

Python • C++ • Linux • Docker • K8s • Airflow • Prometheus • Terraform • AWS

The Voleon Group

Software Engineer Intern · May 2022 – August 2022

Berkeley, CA

I worked on the Infrastructure Engineering Team, where I developed APIs and created a dashboard to collect test metrics and identify flaky tests. I also profiled and analyzed Airflow DAGs to search for sources of slowdown in production jobs.

Python • Docker • Groovy • Elasticsearch • Kibana • Airflow

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern · May 2021 – August 2021

Bellevue, WA

I worked on the On-Road Execution Team, where I developed an internal debugging tool to rapidly retrieve transporter itineraries by transporter ID and time stamp.

Java • TypeScript • AWS S3 • AWS Glue • AWS Kinesis • AWS CDK

Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences · GPA 3.93/4.0 · August 2019 – May 2023

Honors: Dean’s List; EECS Honor Society; Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Honor Society
Teaching: CS 70 — Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory (Sp23, Fa22, Sp22, Fa21, Sp21, Fa20, Su20)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2020–2021)

Outdoors

I love backpacking, mountaineering, and the outdoors! Here are some selected adventures.

Brooks Range custom route (7 days) solo Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, AK
Twentyfive Mile Wash, Escalante River, and Scorpion Gulch (class 3) Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, UT
Syncline Valley, Walker Cabin, Taylor Canyon Canyonlands National Park, UT
Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
Middle Palisade 14,018' via Northeast Face (class 3) Sierra Nevada, CA
Skolai to Wolverine, with circumnavigation of the Wolverine Plateau solo Wrangell–St. Elias National Park & Preserve, AK
Northern Picket Range via Access Creek, Luna Peak 8,311' (true summit) via Southwest Ridge (class 3) solo North Cascades National Park, WA
Evolution Basin high country, The Socialite 12,265' via West Ridge (class 3) solo Sierra Nevada, CA
Mount Russell 14,094' via East Ridge (class 3) solo Sierra Nevada, CA
High Sierra Trail, Mount Whitney 14,505' (class 1), Mount Muir 14,018' (class 3) via John Muir Trail solo, my first time backpacking! Sierra Nevada, CA
Mount Shasta 14,180' via Avalanche Gulch (class 2) solo Shasta–Trinity National Forest, CA
Mount Whitney 14,505' via Mount Whitney Trail (class 2, ice chute) Sierra Nevada, CA