Curriculum vitae

Jiuyu Zhang · London, UK · Updated August 2026

EXPERIENCE

09/2025 →
LONDON

Clearwater (CWAN)

ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER, RISK & PERFORMANCE

Designed, built and deployed an agentic pipeline that automates 95% of initial security vulnerability triage, using state of the art models, MCP and skills. Owned end to end.

Architect and build the distributed Python services and compute platform behind Beacon's real‑time risk and Risk‑as‑a‑Service calculations, balancing performance and maintainability at client scale.

Partner directly with clients to design and deliver bespoke risk and pricing workflows, from design through release into production.

05/2025 – 12/2025
LONDON

UCL AI Centre

RESEARCHER, AI IN EDUCATION

Researched the effectiveness of AI‑powered tools in one‑to‑group mentoring for first‑year undergraduates, under the supervision of Prof Ivana Drobnjak.

07/2024 – 06/2025
LONDON

University College London

SENIOR PROGRAMMING TUTOR

Led a team of 22+ programming tutors delivering personalised learning, improving outcomes across all UCL CS first‑year undergraduate programmes.

06/2024 – 08/2024
LONDON

Beacon Platform

PLATFORM ENGINEERING INTERN · ACQUIRED BY CLEARWATER

Delivered a project reducing developer downtime by 85%, impacting over half of Beacon's engineering teams.

Revamped front‑end tooling to cut loading times by 49% globally, rolled out to all clients, and enhanced service auditability alongside a streamlined policy engine.

Designed a DirectConnect improvement reducing market‑data capture latency by over 35%.

04/2024
LONDON

Jane Street

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSIGHT

Ranked 1st in the Electronic Trading Challenge, building arbitrage and market‑making trading systems for paper trading in bonds, ADRs and ETFs.

05/2023 – 08/2023
LONDON

University College London

SUMMER RESEARCH INTERN

Computational social science research applying machine learning, owning data analysis, methodology and report writing. Laid the foundation for a Master's‑level thesis in the Autonomous Systems group.

PROJECTS

JAVA
OPEN SOURCE

Ngrok‑LAN

GITHUB.COM/ALUJJDND/NGROK-LAN

25,000+ downloads and 34 stars for a tool that exposes local LAN servers to the internet through automated Ngrok tunnelling, built as a FabricMC mod.

iOS
ML · AWS

Morbas

PUBLISHED ON THE APP STORE

Separates songs into vocal, drum, bass and instrument stems with tempo and pitch controls for practice. Inference runs elastically on AWS ECS from custom ECR images, with supporting workflows on Lambda.

EDUCATION

09/2022 – 06/2025
LONDON

University College London

BSc COMPUTER SCIENCE

First Class Honours. First and second year average above 80%, a 4.0 GPA equivalent. 1st place at the G‑Research London Coding Challenge.

09/2016 – 07/2021
SYDNEY

Cranbrook School

HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

ATAR 99.70, the top 0.3% of New South Wales. Ranked 1st in Physics and Science Extension.

EXTRACURRICULAR

09/2023 – 06/2025
LONDON

UCL Technology Society

PRESIDENT · EX‑DIRECTOR OF MENTORSHIP

Directed HackLondon 2025, the largest intercollegiate hackathon in Europe, with 270+ participants from across the UK and Europe and partners including OpenAI, JetBrains and Bending Spoons. Launched the society's inaugural mentorship programme, facilitating 20 mentorship pairs.

ADDITIONAL

TECHNICAL

Python, Java, C, OCaml, SQL, Linux shell. Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS. Agentic development with MCP and state of the art models, Beacon Core Tools.

LANGUAGES

English, native. Mandarin Chinese, native.

CERTIFICATIONS

Bloomberg Market Concepts. MITx Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance.

INTERESTS

Tennis, music production, photography, travel, percussion and guitar.