Di Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Zeta Global
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDi Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer and data engineer based in Auckland with eight years of experience building data pipelines, APIs, and cloud-native systems. Skilled in Python, SQL (including complex warehouse queries), PySpark and AWS, Di has delivered production data workflows on Airflow and overhauled critical pipelines at both fintech and marketing platforms. They pair a strong applied mathematics background (M.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong and AUT) with hands-on engineering—designing APIs with Django REST, serverless ingestion with Lambda, and connectors across diverse data stores. Recently focused on Snowflake adoption and DevOps practices at Sailthru NZ by Zeta Global, Di brings practical experience shipping reliable, scalable data solutions in regulated banking and startup environments. Outside work they balance analytical rigor with creative interests—Baroque/Classical music, hiking and running—reflecting a disciplined yet curious approach to problem solving. A certified AWS Developer Associate, Di is comfortable translating stakeholder needs into performant, peer-reviewed data products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Analytics Mathematics and Statistics, Master of Analytics Mathematics and Statistics at Auckland University of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (61)
deprecated10
strava-api9
jupyter-notebook9
strava8
gpx8
python8
latex8
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jupyter7
notebook7
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machine-learning7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dizhu1991/dizhu1991.github.io
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Samples of Python or SQL files that I have written, for now mainly regarding data extraction, uploading and connection to AWS and SQL.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
extractionpythondata-analysisdata-sciencesql
Trust-Codes-Ltd/gs1-compression
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 51 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
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