Chengzhi Zhao
Data Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChengzhi Zhao is a data engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale data platforms and both batch and real-time pipelines, currently contributing at Apple. He has deep hands-on expertise across the Hadoop/Spark/Flink ecosystem, streaming systems (Kinesis, Pub/Sub), orchestration (Apache Airflow committer), and cloud-native deployments on AWS and GCP. Chengzhi has a strong background in data warehousing, ETL tooling and visualization, having helped shape data platforms at Meetup and Walmart before joining Apple. Comfortable across JVM and Python stacks, containerized infrastructure, and a wide range of databases, he blends systems-level engineering with product-focused delivery. His career reflects a practical mix of open-source contribution and enterprise-grade implementation, grounded in an MS in Information Systems and an early foundation in marketing-driven product thinking.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Management, Marketing, Bachelor of Management, Marketing at Wuhan University of TechnologyMaster of Science, Information System & Operation Management, Master of Science, Information System & Operation Management at University of Florida - Warrington College Of Business
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
2,561reputation
517kreached
43answers
35questions
airflow
top-1%
Github Skills (78)
plotly-dash10
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
flask10
apache-airflow10
data-exploration10
data-engineering10
big-data10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
scheduler10
superset10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChengzhiZhao/flink
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Mirror of Apache Flink
Contributions:49 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
ChengzhiZhao/read-apache-beam-programming-guide
May 2019 - Aug 2019
The Repository for Reading Apache Beam Programming Guide Blog Posts
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
blog-postsbeamapachepostsjava
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