David Z
Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Tencent Americas
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Z is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect based in Fremont with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, migrating, and operating large-scale network and cloud environments. A CCIE-trained network engineer turned cloud specialist, he has led networking strategy and deployed core AWS components and multi-vendor infrastructure for e-commerce and enterprise customers at companies like Tencent Americas, Rakuten, and Gap. He combines deep expertise across routing, firewalls, SDN, virtualization and storage with automation skills in Python and Terraform to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. Known for bridging traditional network engineering and cloud-native architectures, he has driven transit gateway, Direct Connect, WAF, and game-publishing network designs while building self-service ops tooling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic migration plans, clear documentation, and mentoring—an engineer who pairs protocol-level rigor with a product-minded focus on performance and reliability.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunication
Github Skills (65)
cpp10
rendering10
dataflow-programming10
zen10
nodes10
simulation10
visualization10
monitoring9
adonisjs9
3d9
rendering-engine9
webgl9
python-requests9
python8
system8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DarcJC/pictures-host
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:189 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
zenustech/ZenoUnrealAddon
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
Zeno addon for the Unreal Engine(WIP)
Contributions:2 releases, 31 PRs, 166 pushes in 6 months
pipelineproceduralunrealengineworkflow
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