Hello, I'm Jerry Yang

Quantitative trading enthusiast with a strong programming background. I thrive on exploring diverse tech stacks to build innovative projects that solve real problems.

All in. That's the only way to live.

Current Endeavors

I'm actively contributing to open-source projects at @QuantConnect. Excited to join @Amazon as an SDE intern in Summer 2025.

Projects I'm Passionate About

I maintain several ongoing side projects that I contribute to monthly. Please leave me a star if you find them interesting!

Chronicle

A helpful user activity monitoring system with the following components (Work in Progress):

  • uiohook-rs - A Rust wrapper for libuiohook providing cross-platform keyboard and mouse event capture capabilities.
  • winshift - A cross-platform window change hook system (Work in Progress).

WorldQuant BRAIN Tools

  • worldquant-brain-simulator - A simulator for offline backtesting of alphas for the WorldQuant BRAIN platform (Work in Progress).
    • refactor-use-polars - Performance-optimized branch utilizing Polars for faster alpha computation in Python.

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