Alice Z
Software Engineer III at Google
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Z is a Software Engineer III with eight years of experience building scalable AI and backend systems, currently working on Open MaaS within Google’s Vertex AI. She has a strong track record in search and developer experience for Vertex AI, previously shaping alerts, notifications, and self-service tooling for Gemini and enterprise AI products. Her background spans high-throughput privacy systems at Meta, production C++ and API readability efforts, and large-scale data engineering from research that parsed and served a 1TB Wikidata knowledge graph. An active open-source contributor, she improved database management, testing, and docs for the well-known beets music library manager, focusing on core stability and testability. Alice blends rigorous academic training (MS and BS degrees from the University of Michigan and dual-degree experience with Shanghai Jiao Tong University) with hands-on engineering across frontend, backend, and data infrastructure. She’s known for turning complex requirements into practical, well-documented solutions and improving developer workflows at scale.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor of Science - BS, ECE (dual degree), Bachelor of Science - BS, ECE (dual degree) at UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityWinter Program, Robotics, Winter Program, Robotics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
database-management10
music-manager10
musicxml10
sqlite10
media-library10
python10
testing10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
musicbrainz8
database-design8
pytest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Alice primarily contributed to database management and testing aspects of the beets music library manager. Their work involved modifying the database interaction, adding functionality to create database directories, and implementing test cases to ensure the correct behavior of the database operations. They also improved existing documentation, making it clear how the database works in certain cases. The contributions focused on core functionality and stability of the application.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
alicezou/alicezou.github.io
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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