Archer Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Rye
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolArcher Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems across databases, real-time computer vision, and infrastructure. He has deep hands-on experience improving test automation and reliability in CockroachDB, contributing to one of the most notable cloud-native distributed SQL databases. Archer blends low-level backend craftsmanship with machine learning and real-time tracking work from roles at Peggy and earlier internships at Google and Shopify, showing versatility across production engineering and ML-infused products. Based in Old Toronto, he favors pragmatic hacking—breaking things often to learn faster—and consistently focuses on testability and performance to ship resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (7)
go10
database-testing10
test-automation10
testing10
sql9
distributed-systems8
react3
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jan 2020 - May 2022
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:545 reviews, 234 commits, 195 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Archer primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and the reliability of the CockroachDB codebase. Their commits addressed issues in the UI, specifically related to saga tests, ensuring the correct return of promises to test runners and improving test coverage. They also contributed to improving the performance of unit tests by implementing test helper sharing and reducing concurrency. In addition, the user made various changes to improve test execution speed and reliability, which demonstrates strong testing skills within a distributed SQL database environment.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
acsrobotics/Project-Raider-Client
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
The corresponding client for the Project-Riader-Server
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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