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Anthony Chou

Backend Engineer & Quant Developer

CS + Math @ UMich. I build reliable trading and data systems, and I research LLM/NLP for role-aware speaker analysis.

Featured Projects

Real-time Market Data Pipeline

BackendQuant

Ingested, normalized, and served equities/FX ticks with sub-100ms latency across services.

  • 99.95% uptime across 90 days
  • P50 < 45ms, P99 < 180ms end-to-end
  • Storage cost reduced 22% via columnar partitioning
PythonKafkaGCPBigQuery

Quant Strategy Research Platform

QuantAI

Backtesting and feature pipeline with reproducible runs and fast parameter sweeps.

  • 10x faster sweep time via parallel runs
  • Deterministic runs with artifact versioning
  • Built-in slippage/fee models
PythonNumPyPandasRay

Role-Aware Speaker Analysis with LLMs

AI

Explored role-conditioned dialogue modeling for more accurate speaker intent classification.

  • +4.2 F1 on benchmark conversations
  • Inference cost reduced 18% via distillation
  • Robust to speaker swaps
PythonPyTorchHF Transformers