David Hu

Quantitative (algorithmic) crypto hedge fund founded to donate performance fees to regenerative impact causes. • Raised millions from personal network and impact-aligned investors; led all investor communications, including monthly reporting and transparent performance updates. • Navigated the fund through the FTX collapse, transparently communicating to investors. Successfully recovered ~60% of client assets via claim sale. Currently winding down the fund. • Defined overall strategy and technical direction, including evaluation and selection of quantitative trading strategies, infrastructure partners, and risk systems. • Built and managed partnerships with other funds and trading teams, coordinating complex operational, technical, and legal requirements. • Owned budgeting and vendor management across custody, exchanges, data providers, and operational tools, with strong emphasis on security and compliance.

Hybrid period of mission-driven work, community building, and part-time engineering: - Facilitator at Relating Between the Lines: taught deep listening and communication skills to employees at Google, Meta, and other top tech companies - Volunteered teaching entrepreneurship in California supermax prisons (Defy, Hustle 2.0) - Founded and grew a “Conscious Asians” community focused on healing racial identity; organized in-person retreats and monthly online circles. - Facilitated forums bringing together people across deep divides (e.g., pro- and anti-vaccine), supporting dialogue that ended with mutual understanding and connection. - Hosted retreats, workshops, and TED-style salon talks while living in intentional communities (e.g. Consciousness Hacking), permaculture eco-villages, and meditation centers. - Invested in deep personal development: 50+ courses and over $100K in emotional intelligence and leadership trainings (Landmark, Stanford Interpersonal Dynamics, Joe Hudson, Compassion Cultivation, Circling, Luminous Awareness, ISTA, men’s groups, embodiment, coaching, ceremonies, therapy). - Part-time full-stack engineering for Mixpanel, Cresta AI, and Learning Equality; built a prototype mobile app with Jia Jiang (Rejection Therapy). - Coached bootcamp graduates into their first engineering roles. - Taught empathy, courage, and authentic communication to children in China. - Biked the pacific coast, travelled 20+ countries, danced a lot!

Health NGO focused on ending preventable deaths and child mortality in Mali. - Designed and implemented a new data warehouse from scratch using Google BigQuery and Apache Airflow, tailored for a resource-constrained non-profit. - Built automated ETL pipelines ingesting Muso’s primary data sources; integrated BI tooling for reporting, monitoring, and program impact analysis. - Implemented data quality and access-control processes (group privileges, auditing) and trained staff, ensuring sustainable, low-maintenance operations.

Joined as an intern in 2011; helped grow the company from ~8 to 200+ staff. - Conceived, designed, and shipped a personalization project that significantly increased learning efficiency, leading to a widely read blog post (https://archive.ph/5KsM7) and TEDx talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0ws8rwd_c). Enabled hiring of top talent and industry leaders. - Led the homepage redesign that increased learning minutes by 1M+ per month, balancing UX, performance, and experimentation. - Worked across the stack: infrastructure/dev-ops, data analytics, personalization/gamification, and Android. - Served as a cultural pillar: conducted interviews, mentored engineers, shaped healthy engineering practices, and helped build a collaborative, high-bar team environment.

- Co-founded uwflow.com, a social course-planning platform for the University of Waterloo with 40K+ users and 1M+ monthly pageviews. - Led frontend and UX, as well as backend and infrastructure (Sass, Bootstrap, Require.js, Backbone, Redis, MongoDB, Python/Flask, AWS). - Owned A/B testing, product design, emails, and team planning - full lifecycle from idea to a widely adopted student tool still in use today. - Orchestrated open-sourcing and hand-off to student team actively maintaining it.

Part of the "Tech Surge"​ team recruited by The White House to resuscitate the launch of healthcare.gov. Worked on frontend web dev.

- Led the development and design of our main user-facing product: fraud analysis console (shows a customer which of their users are likely to commit fraud and why) - Set up the frontend stack consisting of Backbone.js, Marionette.js, Handlebars.js, and others - Redesigned home page, jobs page, pricing page, blog - Mentored an intern during summer; interviewed engineering candidates

- Presented a TEDx talk on my previous work - Full-stack data analytics: Apache Hive for data warehousing and Backbone.js and Bootstrap for frontend dashboard - 3 hackathon projects in 24hrs (all shipped): real-time map of users; 2x video speed; RSS feed - Independently conceived and wrote continuous integration & deployment tool: github.com/Khan/gae-continuous-deploy - Organized bike trip from Mountain View to SF; helped new interns; popular CS hack project

- Proposed and implemented machine learning model for new proficiency model. Blog post (Hacker News frontpaged): http://david-hu.com/ka-ml.html - Increased student proficiencies by 20%, hint usage by 55%, review problem usage by 22% - Data visualization in Python; map reduce scripts; UI design; see http://david-hu.com/ka-internship-post-mortem.html - GitHub commits (http://david-hu.com/ka-github.html) and Kiln changesets (http://david-hu.com/ka-kiln.html)

- Implemented map reduce algorithms to cluster near-duplicate documents in a web crawl - Optimized runs on Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Designed and implemented a multi-threaded cross-platform automation framework for Google Earth

- Implemented product features for Google Mobile Docs - Derived cubic Bezier math for web-based smooth scrolling using CSS 3D transforms - Optimized speed by exploiting JavaScript implementations and improving data structures