Summary
Cliff Zhang is a seasoned engineering professional with over two decades in R&D and more than a decade of hands-on product and platform experience, including ten years at Microsoft working across SQL Server, BI, cloud services, Hadoop/HDInsight, IoT and telemetry projects. He now operates as an independent engineer in Beijing, building production-ready computer vision pipelines (TensorFlow, OpenCV, CNNs) for intelligent railway monitoring and co-developing a wearable-to-cloud healthcare solution on Azure. Cliff brings deep understanding of data management systems, distributed transactions, and performance-sensitive middleware from early roles at BEA, Sybase and enterprise MIS projects. He blends systems-level C/C++ and database expertise with modern Python ML stacks, shipping end-to-end solutions that span embedded devices to cloud analytics. Notable is his ability to pivot between large-scale corporate R&D and scrappy startup engineering, maintaining strong practical knowledge of where different data technologies excel.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, English, French