David Zhuang
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at ACICFG
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Zhuang is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years’ experience building and automating large-scale infrastructure, currently running Norton Secure VPN’s edge network and bringing ML into operations to reduce toil and risk. He blends hands-on SRE work—developing internal systems and automation—with full-stack experience from prior roles at FleetOps and Vanhawks, where he led backend development for connected products. A committed open-source contributor, David has extended the popular you-get downloader with many site-specific extractors, showing deep web scraping and reverse-engineering skills. He pairs technical breadth with formal training in computer science, statistics, big data, and international business (BSc, Big Data master’s, MBA), enabling pragmatic decisions across engineering and product. Active in community and volunteer projects, he contributes to grassroots networks and nonprofit tech initiatives in Toronto while based in Tempe, Arizona. Colleagues describe him succinctly by his GitHub motto: be nice, be wise—an engineer who values technical excellence and collaborative impact.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General, Post Graduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General at Institute of Management Technology, GhaziabadBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Statistics at University of TorontoMaster's degree Big Data, Master's degree Big Data at Universidad Isabel IBrockville Collegiate InstituteMaster of Business Administration - MBA International Business, Master of Business Administration - MBA International Business at Deakin University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
video-download10
python10
webscraping10
api9
regular-expression9
apim9
command-line-tool6
flv6
macos6
bash6
dictionary6
ffmpeg6
ffprobe6
mp46
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
soimort/you-get
Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
:arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:105 commits, 116 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed by adding support for various video websites to the `you-get` downloader. They implemented specific extractors for new sites like VideoBam, Letvcloud, Qianmo, Funshion, Miaopai, Metacafe, iQilu, Suntv, and others, enabling the program to download videos from these platforms. These contributions involved analyzing website structures, implementing download logic, and integrating the extraction functionality into the `you-get` framework. Furthermore, the user fixed and updated existing extractors, demonstrating a consistent effort to expand and maintain the project's capabilities.
downloaderdoublearrowdumbscrapes
cnbeining/autotimecode
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Video to aligned timecode(SRT), transcription and translation in 4 clicks. ACI字幕组的自动时轴，听打，翻译工具。
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
clickstimecodetranscriptiontranslationsrt
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