Chloe Zhang
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChloe Zhang is a Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable back-end systems, currently at AWS in Bellevue. She specializes in query engines and SQL tooling for search platforms, contributing meaningful fixes and features to high-profile open-source projects like Open Distro/OpenSearch SQL—implementing functions, improving CSV usability, and hardening dependencies against CVEs. Her background in electrical and computer engineering (MS, UT Austin) and opto-electronics (BE) gives her a strong analytical foundation for low-level parsing, performance work, and interoperable client drivers such as ODBC. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic problem-solving: she balances feature development with security and compatibility upgrades that keep production systems robust.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering - BE, Opto-electronics Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Opto-electronics Information Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology
Github Skills (21)
opensearch10
c-language10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
sql10
elasticsearch10
cprogramming-language10
elasticsearch-api10
datetime9
aws-sdk9
apidoc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opendistro-for-elasticsearch/sql
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
🔍 Open Distro SQL Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 184 reviews, 130 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chloe primarily focused on enhancing the SQL plugin for Elasticsearch. Their contributions involved implementing a pretty formatting option for the `_explain` request, adding and fixing features such as backtick quoted identifiers and support for the LIKE operator, and implementing a full range of mathematical functions including those in trigonometry and date/time. They also improved the usability of the plugin by improving the CSV format. The user also worked on adding and fixing issues in the SQL engine.
sqlelasticsearch-pluginelasticsearchdistrojava
opensearch-project/sql
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Query your data using familiar SQL or intuitive Piped Processing Language (PPL)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 27 commits, 43 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chloe contributed to the OpenSearch SQL project by modifying code related to AWS SDK C++ versioning, fixing error output issues in the workbench, and upgrading dependencies to address a high-severity CVE. They also implemented support for NOT REGEXP_QUERY and long literals, indicating work on query parsing and functionality. Further, they made changes to the ODBC driver to improve connectivity and compatibility.
querylanguage-processingsqlintuitiveppl
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