Speakers

Christopher Hong is a Software Engineering Team Lead in Bloomberg's Data Platform Engineering group. His team’s goal is to build reusable infrastructure to enable the company's data analysts around the globe to easily bring valuable datasets into Bloomberg and to make them available to clients via API. Throughout his 11-year career at Bloomberg around data, he has built various ETL systems using a variety of open-source technologies to successfully make hundreds of datasets available to clients. Outside of Bloomberg, Christopher regularly mentors first-generation college students through Project Basta, a non-profit organization that aims to bridge the employment gap and build careers for first-generation students. As a first-generation college graduate himself from Brooklyn, New York, Christopher earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Cooper Union, where he is also an adjunct professor teaching computer science, software engineering, and large-scale systems to future generation of engineers.