Annie Zhou
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnnie Zhou is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable data and storage systems, currently contributing to Databricks' Storage Platform in San Francisco. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate with a statistics minor, she has hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure, search, and real-time data pipelines from internships at Facebook, Lyft, Dropbox, and SAP. Her work has shipped measurable product impact—scaling an offline video ranking 100x at Facebook and increasing Watch Time, reducing tokenization costs at Dropbox, and delivering near real-time BigQuery ingestion at Lyft. She combines strong backend engineering with systems thinking, routinely taking projects from prototype to production and mentoring cross-team onboarding. Known for pragmatic cost- and performance-driven design, she also led a hack-week team that prototyped a data-compression service estimated to save $1M/year. Based in the Bay Area, she thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, and product-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Minor in Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Minor in Statistics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
drracket9
parsing9
morphological-analysis9
tokenizer9
diagram8
racket8
tree8
segmentation8
drawing7
graph7
go4
css1
javascript1
science1
computer-science1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AnnieZhou08/DrawRacket4Me
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
DrawRacket4Me draws trees and graphs from your code, making it easier to check if the structure is what you wanted.
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 17 days
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AnnieZhou08/LeetAlgo
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:174 commits, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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