Yu-An (Aaron) Chen
Hi there! I'm a 2023 graduate from Carnegie Mellon University currently working as an Analytics Engineer at Insurify, an insurance aggregator with a $600M Series B valuation. I'm proficient in Python, R, PySpark and SQL and experienced with tools like dbt, Databricks, AWS, and sklearn. With practical experience in MLOps, data pipeline development/management, and data science, I'm confident that I can be a valuable contributor to any team looking to tackle complex data analysis problems.
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Personal Projects
Analytics Engineering Demo
Modern Portfolio Theory & Optimal Asset Allocation
Portfolio Exposure Attribution
Neural Wavelets for Time Series Compression
Distributed ML with Million Song Dataset
Government Bias in Affordable Housing
Certifications
🎲 Intro to Financial Engineering and Risk Management (credential)
- Offered by Columbia University on Coursera
- No Arbitrage, pricing by replication, binomial model, Black Scholes, etc.
- Took additional coursework exploring greeks, put-call parity, volatility smile, etc.
⚙️ Advanced Machine Learning Operations (credential)
- Offered by Databricks at the 2025 Data + AI Summit
- MLFlow, CI/CD, model drift prevention, retraining automation, lakehouse monitoring, experiment assigment
☁️ AWS Cloud Technical Essentials (credential)
- Offered by AWS on Coursera
- IAM, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS, S3, EBS, DynamoDB, RDS, EC2 Load Balancing/Auto Scaling, etc.
- VPCs, subnets, security groups, roles, groups, etc.
🏦 Bloomberg Market Concepts (credential)
- Explores key concepts in financial markets and drivers of changes in each area
- Economic indicators, currencies, fixed income, equities, commodities
🏙️ Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals (credential)
- Explores key concepts in finance and investment and introduces the roles of various financial professions in the economy
- Financial institutions, types of investment, investing strategies, Circular Flow of Income