David Zhang is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, reliable systems, currently working at Snowflake after Observe Inc. joined via acquisition. He specializes in petabyte-scale telemetry ingestion and low-latency infrastructure, with production experience in C++ and Go. A Berkeley CS graduate who taught and led CS 162 as Head TA, he brings both deep systems knowledge and an ability to explain complex concepts to others. His background spans research in RL from human feedback, internships at Two Sigma and NASA Ames, and hands-on robotics work in underwater perception and SLAM—evidence of a practical, cross-disciplinary approach to systems problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions:120 commits, 60 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
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