Yigang (Sam) Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer at Zhejiang Metals And Materials Co, a Fortune 500 company which distributes steels, oil and wood products. Sam plays a pivotal role in spearheading the company's digital transformation efforts which enhance operational efficiency while mitigating risks. Previously, Sam was a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. He and his team crafted a latency monitor platform for the global equity and option market, leveraging cutting-edge big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka and Scala. This groundbreaking platform revolutionized the monitoring and optimization of the global information distribution and trading network. Sam's contributions left an indelible mark on Bloomberg's ability to provide speedy and reliable services in the competitive financial landscape. Sam's academic journey includes an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University of Technology.
From 2022 Sam served on the core team of TCFA. He used his technical strength to solve problems and optimize processes to ensure the success of every single event . His work includes email notification, events registration, online and in-person conference broadcasting, website maintenance, fixing and improving many other technical issues.