Cathy Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCathy Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating traffic infrastructure, service meshes, and cloud networking across companies like Airbnb, Discord, and Google. She combines deep practical expertise in GCP networking, Envoy/Traffic Director, Cloudflare edge/WAF, Terraform, and Kubernetes with a strong SRE mindset for observability and incident management. Cathy has contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as the AMP web components, improving front-end UX and component behavior, and she has a track record of migrating VM workloads to Kubernetes and rolling out global service meshes. Based in Palo Alto, she pairs technical leadership with teaching and mentoring experience from Stanford and Google programs, and she donates time and funds to support CS education. Unusually for an engineer at her level, she’s also a dancer and currently studying dance, offering pro-bono infrastructure consulting to nonprofits.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Stanford UniversityIB Diploma, IB Diploma at Western Academy of BeijingManagement and Technology Summer Institute, Management and Technology Summer Institute at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
html10
amp-html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
user-interface10
web-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
accelerated-mobile-pages10
ampl10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 286 commits, 693 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cathy's commits primarily focus on implementing features and fixing bugs within the AMP HTML framework. Specifically, the commits involve developing a new "input-throttled" action event, implementing lightboxed carousel features such as zoom and pan, and adding a carousel demo. The commits also include adjustments to styling to match the browser behavior for `amp-img`. The changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing user experience and component functionality.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
ampproject/amp-by-example
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
DEPRECATED: AMP by Example has been merged into amp.dev
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cathy primarily contributed to the development of example pages for AMP components within the `amp-by-example` repository. Their work included creating example implementations for `<amp-lightbox-gallery>`, `<amp-social-share>`, and `<amp-accordion>`, demonstrating the usage of these components with different attributes and configurations. The contributions added new features such as captioning to `<amp-lightbox-gallery>` and styling options to `<amp-social-share>`. The user also focused on adding examples showing how to integrate different AMP components and updated the examples based on component changes.
mergedgulp-plugindevagnosticamp
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