Emma Shi
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the intersection of software, product, and entrepreneurship.
/ Experience
New YorkPresent
Shopify (opens in new tab), built the end-to-end tax calculation engine for Canada's launch of Shopify Tax. Rolled out early + general access to hundreds of thousands of merchants.
Toronto
Ply Health (YC S24) (opens in new tab), designed the credentialing infrastructure that tracked enrollment dependencies across payer-provider networks. First intern during Series A raise.
San Francisco
Zomp, engineered data pipelines for physical oil and gas pipelines across North America. Improved defect classification by modeling spatial patterns in sensor data.
Toronto
Wat Street (opens in new tab), ML Project Lead. Working on Correlation Trading (opens in new tab) to develop models that measure time-dilated correlations between stock pairs.
WaterlooPresent
/ Programs
Citadel (opens in new tab), wrote a research paper on how GenAI adoption disclosures affect returns and volatility across the S&P 500.
Miami
Jane Street (opens in new tab), spent a week working alongside quants, devs, and researchers.
New York
Outside of tech, I'm on the Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team at Waterloo, and enjoy basketball, board games, travelling, reading, and cafes.