Chong Zhou
Software Engineer at Instagram
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChong Zhou is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems and search infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Instagram in Dallas. He combines hands-on backend expertise—ranging from microservices and CI/CD to large-scale graph search infra—with proven people leadership overseeing multi-team deliveries at Sam’s Club and Meta. His early research work contributed an OpenStudio plugin and BIMserver integrations used in building energy modeling, revealing a strong foundation in applied research and open-source collaboration. Comfortable both architecting systems and digging into code, Chong has repeatedly modernized legacy batch and POS systems while driving migrations to Azure and implementing observability and automated testing. He pairs academic training from Penn State with practical product impact, quietly bridging building-energy modeling, search systems, and high-throughput consumer services.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Information Science and Technology, Master of Science (M.S.), Information Science and Technology at Penn State UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
qt10
json9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NatLabRockies/OpenStudio
Mar 2015 - May 2015
OpenStudio is a cross-platform collection of software tools to support whole building energy modeling using EnergyPlus and advanced daylight analysis using Radiance.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chong primarily contributed to the integration of BIMserver functionality within the OpenStudio core. Their work focused on developing the `BIMserverConnection` class, which handles communication with the BIMserver API, including login, project retrieval, and model download. The user also made contributions to the `ProjectImporter` class and fixed bugs related to the IFC import process, improving the integration of BIM data.
energyplusopenstudioopenstudio-sdk
zhouchong90/LeetCode-Python-Solution
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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