Cyrus Zhang
Sr Engineering Manager Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCyrus Zhang is a senior engineering manager and staff engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data infrastructure and AI/ML platforms, currently leading Machine Intelligence data infrastructure at Alibaba Damo Academy. He previously led data mining and search engineering at Microsoft Bing and developed core Hadoop/ETL engines and reactive data frameworks at Amazon, earning multiple internal awards for impact. Cyrus blends hands-on systems design (GPGPU/CUDA real-time video processing early in his career) with strategic team leadership, making him comfortable both in prototype research and production-grade distributed systems. Educated in software engineering and computer science across Zhejiang University, HKU, and University of Alberta, he brings a strong academic foundation to pragmatic engineering decisions. An understated thread across his career is turning research-grade algorithms into scalable pipelines that serve high-throughput, mission-critical products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of AlbertaThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (117)
near-real-time10
streamlit10
rdd10
data-visualization10
nlp10
synthetic-data10
gpt10
data-science10
llama10
data-analysis10
pytorch10
large-language-models10
llm10
azure9
annotations9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sctravel/willGiveIOS
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 43 comments in 4 months
cyruszhang/SparkCLR
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 months
apachesparkscalaapache-sparkextensions
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