Chris Zhang
Software Engineer at Google
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Zhang is a software engineer based in Berkeley with 10 years of experience building service infrastructure and backend systems at companies like LinkedIn and Google. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he contributed to LinkedIn’s Rest.li framework—adding robust retry logic, server-side improvements, and fixes that unblocked releases—demonstrating expertise in resilient, production-grade distributed services. His tenure spans hands-on work from intern roles at Blizzard to senior engineering at LinkedIn and current engineering at Google, showing consistent progression into more complex systems work. Comfortable with JVM-based service stacks and operational concerns, he blends pragmatic bug fixes and feature work with attention to service reliability and observability. Notably, his open-source contributions reflect a bias for unblocking teams and improving long-lived infrastructure rather than one-off features.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
testing9
testng9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/rest.li
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 39 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the LinkedIn Rest.li framework. Their work involved adding default values for HTTP query thresholds, disabling failing tests to unblock releases, and implementing retry logic for connection and session-related exceptions. Additionally, the user worked on server-side changes, including exposing a method in JMX and adding a new UriProperty, and also addressed warnings and fixed compilation errors.
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
zhang-chris/knausj_talon
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
Config for talon for Mac, Windows and Linux. Very much in progress.
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
talonvimwindowsin-progresslinux
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