Chao Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Essential Software Inc
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with over a decade of experience building full-stack Java applications, APIs, and data pipelines. He has led multiple full lifecycle projects—owning requirements, design, estimation, testing, and production support—while implementing solutions with Spring/Hibernate, RESTful APIs, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD. At AT&T he designed and delivered 300+ APIs, real-time data collection pipelines and dashboards using Angular, NiFi, and various RDBMS/analytics stores, demonstrating both scale and operational rigor. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and data engineering, he combines strong problem-solving skills with clear communication and SME leadership in Agile environments. His academic background in computer science and physics underpins a methodical approach to complex system design and data analysis. An ongoing self-learner, he actively adopts modern DevOps practices to bridge development and production needs.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS physics, Master of Science - MS physics at Fudan UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Nanjing University
Github Skills (22)
face9
efficientnet9
nlp8
re-identification8
transformers7
deep-learning7
deepfake7
natural-language-processing6
bert6
pytorch6
imagenet6
scalable5
transformer5
libfdk-aac4
cnn-classification3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wdrink/PyDeepFakeDet
May 2022 - Nov 2022
PyDeepFakeDet is an integrated and scalable tool for Deepfake detection.
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
pytorchscalableimagenetdeepfakeintegrated
zhangchaosd/superchao
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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