Thematic Research @ D. E. Shaw
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Farallon Capital Management
Summer Analyst
June 2019 to August 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Google DeepMind
Software Engineer
December 2015 to May 2018
London, United Kingdom
Software Engineer
October 2013 to December 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Square
Software Engineer - Analytics
March 2012 to May 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Data Visualization Programmer
October 2010 to March 2011
Stanford, CA
Apple
Information Systems & Technology Intern
June 2010 to September 2010
Cupertino, CA
Google DeepMind
Software Engineer
October 2014 to December 2015
Zürich Area, Switzerland
Hackermeter
Co-Founder
May 2013 to October 2013
San Francisco, CA
Ayasdi
Engineer
June 2011 to February 2012
Palo Alto, CA
Apptimize
Data Scientist
December 2013 to June 2014
San Francisco Bay Area
The D. E. Shaw Group
Rotational Associate
New York, New York, United States
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Master of Science - MS
2018 to 2020
Harvard Business School
MBA with High Distinction
2018 to 2020
Stanford University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Terman Fellow (top 5% of engineering class)
2007 to 2011
What company does Lucas Baker work for?
Lucas Baker works for Farallon Capital Management
What is Lucas Baker's role at Farallon Capital Management?
Lucas Baker is Summer Analyst
What industry does Lucas Baker work in?
Lucas Baker works in the Investment Management industry.
Who are Lucas Baker's colleagues?
Lucas Baker's colleagues are Aniruddha De, Priya Sharma, Thiru Gangappa, Sandeep Pola, Lakshit Arora, Varun Arora, Krunal Patel, Sanket Purbey, Adway Malhotra, and Sudeshna Roy
📖 Summary
Summer Analyst @ Farallon Capital Management Researched and recommended investments in merger arbitrage. From June 2019 to August 2019 (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Google DeepMind Brought AIphaGo to superhuman performance levels in the game of Go. My role focused on visualization tools allowing inspection of AlphaGo's thought process, as well as testing frameworks ensuring its performance across a broad range of positions. Languages: Python, C++, Go, Javascript. From December 2015 to May 2018 (2 years 6 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Engineer @ Pinterest Improved data analysis pipeline with internal analytics tools and anomaly detection, and conducted a viability study for pin monetization. Languages and technologies: Python, R, Redshift, Hive, MapReduce. From October 2013 to December 2013 (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer - Analytics @ Square Built risk tool to detect networks of fraudulent users, contributed to Hadoop data infrastructure, and implemented much of the backend for Square Market. Languages: Java, Python, Ruby (Rails). From March 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Visualization Programmer @ Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Designed and implemented an OS X data visualization package for Prof. Jacob Wacker’s Theoretical High Energy Physics research group. Languages: Objective-C. From October 2010 to March 2011 (6 months) Stanford, CAInformation Systems & Technology Intern @ Apple Implemented web frontend for large-scale internal cloud storage tool. Languages and technologies: Java, CouchDB, HTML/JS/CSS. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Cupertino, CASoftware Engineer @ Google DeepMind Improving annotation for geographical entities in the Knowledge Graph. Implemented projects in entity mining, document annotation, and query annotation, ultimately impacting over 1% of search results at Google. Languages: C++, Python, Javascript. From October 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 3 months) Zürich Area, SwitzerlandCo-Founder @ Hackermeter Matched developers with companies through coding challenge portfolios.Hackermeter (Y Combinator, S13) was acquired by Pinterest in October 2013. From May 2013 to October 2013 (6 months) San Francisco, CAEngineer @ Ayasdi Developed server- and client-side tools for cloud-based visualization of high-dimensional biological datasets. Languages and technologies: Java, Python, Hadoop, HBase. From June 2011 to February 2012 (9 months) Palo Alto, CAData Scientist @ Apptimize Rebuilt analytics platform end-to-end to make interpreting mobile A/B testing results simple, precise, and useful. Improved interaction speed by a factor of 180%. Languages and frameworks: Java, Angular, Python. From December 2013 to June 2014 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaRotational Associate @ The D. E. Shaw Group Thematic Research New York, New York, United States
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