Maxwell Zhang

MSCS at Georgia Institute of Technology

Potomac, Maryland, United States

About

- I completed a Bachelors in CS and Masters in CS at Georgia Tech. - I write a blog about competitive programming: https://mzhang2021.github.io/cp-blog/

Experience

  • Quantitative Researcher at Radix Trading LLC
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Competitive Programming Instructor at X-Camp Academy
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    - Instructor for X-Camp's Grandmaster program which prepares students for the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) at the highest levels and has cultivated 27 national finalists, including 1 member of the US national team. - Spearheaded development of X-Camp's 602 course curriculum for promoting from gold to platinum, USACO's highest division.

  • Teaching Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology
    Aug 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

    CS3511 in Fall '23, CS3510/11 in Spring '24, CS 6515 in Fall '24 and Spring '25

  • Quantitative Research Engineer Intern at Citadel
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    - Algo/Execution Engineering at Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies (GQS). - Added support for a new order type in one trading pipeline and built a new testing framework for end-to-end testing of that pipeline. - Took ownership over that pipeline and communicated with traders for testing and identification of potential edge cases in implementation.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Roblox
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    - Designed and implemented an algorithm for client side voice culling in Roblox's voice chat experiences. - Enabled up to 50x increase in room sizes by dramatically reducing the amount of packets forwarded between clients and server.