Fangzhou Zhang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Confluent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFangzhou Zhang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building large-scale search and product infrastructure, most recently at Confluent and LinkedIn where he led the Recruiter Search Foundation team. He blends deep backend and full-stack expertise—ranging from search ranking systems to consumer iOS apps—and has a track record of shipping user-focused products that scale. An active open-source contributor, Fangzhou earned 700+ GitHub stars and ranks in the top 0.37% of Python project owners, with notable repos like zhihu-spider that demonstrated practical web-scale scraping and trend analysis. He pairs hands-on implementation skills with product sensibility from startup to enterprise contexts, and has contributed to ML research projects such as CodeBuff. Colleagues value him for turning ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable systems and for repeatedly automating manual workflows to deliver measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of San FranciscoBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
printing9
san9
spider9
command-line-tool8
language-agnostic8
spark-ml8
emr7
cli7
pyspark6
scala5
apache5
machine-learning5
spark5
javascript5
apache-spark5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MorganZhang100/line-counter
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
A command line tool to analyze the amount of lines and files under current directory
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
command-line-toollinesdirectoryanalyzecli
MorganZhang100/codebuff
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 comments in 1 month
printingagnosticpretty-printingmachine-learninglanguage-agnostic
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