Eric Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEric Zhang is a software engineer, researcher, and designer with eight years of experience building distributed systems, programming languages, graphics, and interaction-focused products. As a founding engineer and later principal engineer at Modal, he shaped core infrastructure decisions—authoring the container runtime, advocating for Rust and Svelte early on, and leading infra research for high-availability networking, serverless HTTP, and eBPF-driven private networking. He thrives in small teams where engineering, design, and long-term technical direction intersect, and his open-source work has reached millions of users. Eric combines academic rigor (MS and BA from Harvard in CS and Mathematics) with hands-on product delivery, from VR teleoperation to ML infra and low-latency systems. Based in New York, he brings a human-centered view of computing—believing technology should amplify people’s ideas and joy—and prefers roles where technical craft meets delightful user experiences.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (33)
sneakers8
monitor8
gift7
twitter5
monitoring5
cheerio4
nodejs4
bots4
streamer4
react4
python3
minecraft3
instagram3
realtime3
shorturl2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ericz99/auth-bot
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
ericz99/twitter-monitor
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 5 months
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