resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "image": "https://profile-images.xing.com/images/e3a75519b933c0fad0259170ec9c42ee-3/shao-yan-ji.1024x1024.jpg",
    "label": "Inter-Disciplinary Practitioner",
    "altLabels": [
      "Programmer, Engineer, Consultant"
    ],
    "location": {
      "address": "Am Burgerhof 4",
      "city": "Gutach im Breisgau",
      "countryCode": "DE",
      "postalCode": "BW 79261",
      "region": "Baden-Wuerttemberg"
    },
    "name": "Matt Ji",
    "phone": "+49 1733281570",
    "profiles": [
    {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/shaoyanji",
        "username": "shaoyanji"
    },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mattji",
        "username": "mattji"
      },
      {
        "network": "XING",
        "url": "https://xing.com/profile/Shaoyan_Ji",
        "username": "Shaoyan_Ji"
      }
    ],
    "summary": "Matt hails from Texas. He has earned degrees from the\nColorado School of Mines and Freiburg. Before starting his\nconsulting, he worked for O3 as a full-time\nasset manager. While his work focuses on all things related to\nenergy both conventional and renewable, he has made a career\ntransition into AI, cryptography and programming stemming\nfrom his academic interests in fractal and chaos theory applied\nto weather analytics.\n",
    "url": "https://www.bountystash.com"
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "keywords": [
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Javascript",
        "Next.js",
        "React",
        "Laravel",
        "HTMX"
      ],
      "level": "Master",
      "name": "Web Development"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "SQL",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MySQL",
        "Django",
        "FastAPI",
        "Flask"
      ],
      "level": "Master",
      "name": "Backend & Database"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "Lua",
        "Erlang",
        "Java",
        "Kotlin",
        "Go",
        "Python",
        "C",
        "C++",
        "Java",
        "Bash",
        "Nim"
      ],
      "level": "Master",
      "name": "Programming Languages"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "Kubernetes",
        "NixOS",
        "AWS",
        "Azure",
        "Google Cloud"
      ],
      "level": "Master",
      "name": "DevOps"
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "fluency": "Native speaker",
      "language": "English"
    },
    {
      "fluency": "Fluent",
      "language": "German"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "description": "Artificial Intelligence applied to weather prediction",
      "endDate": "2014-02-24",
      "entity": "Meteorological Institute of Freiburg",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed a novel method for time-cross-correlating wind velocity data that yields a +70% accuracy",
        "Trained neural network models for long-term weather data to optimize grid economics of intermittent solar and wind resources"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Artificial Neural Networks",
        "Fractal Geometry",
        "Vector Analysis"
      ],
      "name": "Master's Thesis",
      "roles": [
        "Student"
      ],
      "startDate": "2013-08-01",
      "type": "thesis",
      "url": "https://www.academia.edu/6762743/A_Study_on_Energy_Intermittency_Reduction_Strategies_with_Emphasis_on_Weather_Pattern_Prediction"
    },
    {
      "description": "Post-graduate research in renewable energy",
      "endDate": "2013-02-28",
      "entity": "United Nations University",
      "highlights": [
        "Analyzed hydrogen production and storage projects using RETScreen",
        "Post-graduate research in renewable energy",
        "Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Bioenergy modules completed under the"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Hydrogen Cells",
        "Solar"
      ],
      "name": "Postgraduate Renewable Energy",
      "roles": [
        "Team lead",
        "Engineer"
      ],
      "startDate": "2013-02-01",
      "type": "course",
      "url": "https://unu.edu"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "description": "Cybersecurity Energy Financial Consulting firm",
      "endDate": "2025-08-19",
      "highlights": [
        "Build an algorithm for options trading and hedging on weather derivatives",
        "Advised clients and acted as in-house Risk Manager for a top German energy trader",
        "Build an immutable web templating language to make it invulnerable to scripting attacks",
        "built risk-adjusted PPA trading models for energy companies",
        "risk managed gas storage and gas swing trading models as a risk manager for EWE Trading",
        "built apps for clients with 300M+ valuation land portfolios",
        "architected a portfolio strategy for covered-call risk hedging strategy for clients",
        "developed fibonacci binary tree algorithm for computational scientists",
        "developed an LLM-based knowledge base software solution",
        "audited bug bounty programs",
        "learned and self-taught NixOS and Kubernetes"
      ],
      "location": "Freiburg, DE",
      "name": "Bountystash",
      "position": "Founder",
      "startDate": "2020-06-01",
      "summary": "Bountystash is a technology based on information theory, risk analysis,\nand market data that leverages the peripheral content generated from AI to\nbuilt clear-text negotiation patterns and value analysis for optimized decision-\nmaking and project resource allocation.\n",
      "url": "https://bountystash.com"
    },
    {
      "description": "Top Solar Developer",
      "endDate": "2020-06-01",
      "highlights": [
        "built financial models and managed 10 MW solar PV power plants",
        "head of asset management of a 100M+ portfolio",
        "scoped and due diligenced O&M projects as backup to project managers",
        "document and managed software and IT admin for company and subsidiaries",
        "interfaced with clients, banks and deal brokers to handle a dozen 4-5 million dollar projects",
        "analyzed corporate liability risks and developed an internal risk management framework",
        "designed a mobile app for enterprise employees to scout new project opportunities",
        "managed an international team and built the incentive structure to a real-time financial model",
        "scoped and due diligenced O&M projects as backup to project managers",
        "Build an algorithm for options trading and hedging on weather derivatives"
      ],
      "location": "Dallas, TX",
      "name": "O3 Energy",
      "position": "Asset Manager",
      "startDate": "2016-08-01",
      "summary": "O3 Energy has been rated as one of the top solar developers/contractors in the US.\nBased out of Dallas, TX, its projects include a portfolio of international commercial PV plants.\n",
      "url": "https://o3energy.com"
    },
    {
      "description": "Top Energy Contractor",
      "endDate": "2016-08-01",
      "highlights": [
        "managed a pipeline of 100M+ projects",
        "customer service and support for clients",
        "devised sustainability sales and marketing strategies",
        "advised clients on cybersecurity software and risk management"
      ],
      "location": "Dallas, TX",
      "name": "Smart Energy 360",
      "position": "Director of Sustainability",
      "startDate": "2015-08-01",
      "summary": "Smart Energy 360 is a top energy provider in the region and has built a clientele of\nsome of the top institutions looking to transition to cleaner electricity.\n",
      "url": "https://smartenergy360.com"
    },
    {
      "description": "Top Solar Research Institute",
      "endDate": "2012-09-01",
      "highlights": [
        "conducted research on heliostat imperfections using interferometry",
        "C++ for application software for interfacing with equipment",
        "Python for analysis and 3D geometry",
        "Mathematica for geometry matrices verification"
      ],
      "name": "Fraunhofer ISE",
      "location": "Freiburg, DE",
      "position": "Hi-Wi",
      "startDate": "2012-03-01",
      "summary": "A world-reknowned research institute in Germany and a foremost in solar technologies.\n",
      "url": "https://ise.fraunhofer.de"
    },
    {
      "description": "International Oil Services Company",
      "endDate": "2011-09-01",
      "highlights": [
        "implemented new excel spreadsheets for the engineering department",
        "managed two frack crews 3M+/week",
        "worked 12 hours a day shifts in the field",
        "troubleshooted chemicals and equipment on site",
        "led safety training for crew members",
        "worked on experimental projects using novel technologies developed by engineering"
      ],
      "name": "Halliburton",
      "location": "Williston, ND, US",
      "position": "Associate Technical Professional",
      "startDate": "2010-06-01",
      "summary": "Halliburton is one of the top Oil and Gas Service company reknowned for technological\ninnovation. The location of focus was in the Bakken Shale region in Williston, North\nDakota. It was one of the busiest boom towns at the time.\n",
      "url": "https://halliburton.com"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "area": "Renewable Energy Management",
      "courses": [
        "Intermittent Renewable Energy and Weather Patterns Analyzed through Artificial Neural Networks"
      ],
      "endDate": "2014-02-01",
      "institution": "University of Freiburg",
      "score": "1,8/5,0",
      "startDate": "2011-11-01",
      "studyType": "Master of Science",
      "url": "https://rem.zee-uni-freiburg.de/"
    },
    {
      "area": "Petroleum Engineering",
      "courses": [
        "McBride Honors Program in Public Policy",
        "Economics"
      ],
      "endDate": "2010-05-15",
      "institution": "Colorado School of Mines",
      "score": "3.2 GPA",
      "startDate": "2006-08-01",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "url": "https://mines.edu/"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "theme": "papirus",
    "language": "en"
  }
}