Summary
Daniel Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn with a decade of hands-on experience building payments and data-driven backend systems. A UC Berkeley Computer Science and Data Science graduate, he combines production engineering on LinkedIn’s Online Payments team with deep teaching experience leading large-scale Data 100 coursework and autograding for over 1,000 students. His internship work at Tubular Labs shows a knack for applied ML and large-scale data engineering—interpolating Twitter video view data with 90% accuracy and speeding complex ElasticSearch queries 50x. Comfortable across PySpark, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and production services, he brings both algorithmic rigor and product-driven optimization to distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Data Science, 3.75, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Data Science, 3.75 at University of California, Berkeley