Lunch-n-Learn

CS Career at Two Sigma

When: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Where: PGH 563
Time: 11:30 AM

Speaker: Scott Lynch and Dat Chu, Two Sigma

Host: Prof. Shishir Shah

Two Sigma is a computational hedge fund with a data driven approach. We have been pushing the frontiers of Big Data before it became a buzzword. We are a developer-centric, technology-driven and all-around-awesome firm with a culture focused on constantly learning, solving the next big problem and be a place for nice geeks.

The first part of this talk hopes to give our students insight into what it is like to work at Two Sigma: the big problems that we solve, the great culture that we foster and the fantastic opportunities we have available for CS graduates. The second part of the talk give some tips on what to do to prepare for an interview at a tech firm and how to land your dream dev job whether you are a freshman or a senior.

Bio:

Scott Lynch received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 1999. He has worked as a software developer for over 20 years at companies that range from a small and now defunct web design company to well known technology companies like Amazon and Expedia. For the past seven years, he has been a developer for Two Sigma on the Data Engineering team.

Dat Chu received both a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He has participated in Google Summer of Code. He has interned at Google. He has been through hackathons, built quadcopters, written Javascript to control laser cutters, developed polyglot desktop apps in C++ and Python, scribbled MATLAB, engaged in a few emacs vs vim debates. For the last three years, he has been a developer for Two Sigma on the Data Engineering team.