yaojie L.

Professional Bug Hunter

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Experienced software/hardware co-design developer with hands-on experience on multiple system designs.

Experience

  • Radix Trading LLC (Chicago)
    • Lead FPGA Engineer
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • FPGA Engineer
      May 2024 - Jan 2025 · 9 mos

  • Principal FPGA Engineer/Managing Partner at Cutler Group, LLC
    Jul 2018 - Apr 2024 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Project owner of multiple low latency FPGA/Software trading systems and strategies. Mentoring junior software and FPGA engineers. Professional bug hunter.

  • Senior Hardware Engineer at Formulus Black
    Jun 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    - Linux kernel module development - Server architecture design - System firmware design - Algorithmic research

  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2012 - May 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      - Teaching: Electrical Engineering Lab (Senior level) - Teaching: Computer Systems Design (Senior level) - Teaching: Embedded Computing Systems (Graduate level) - Substitute Teacher: Computer Architecture (Graduate level)

    • Research Engineer, Computer Architecture & Parallel Processing Lab, NJIT
      Sep 2012 - May 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      - Led the research in SIMD processor design and optimization. - Prototyped FPGA based systems by integrating custom hardware with IP cores. - Developed low level drivers and APIs for research prototype systems.