Summary
Hadi Zhang is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable stream-processing and data infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has deep hands-on expertise in Python, Java, and Scala and has shipped production work with Apache Beam, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS while at Yelp and DoorDash. At Yelp he led efforts to bridge Python UDFs into Flink pipelines, created a library to migrate legacy stream jobs to Beam, and built tooling to move Flink workloads from EMR to an internal Kubernetes PaaS. His background spans backend automation and testing (Node.js-based firmware test automation) and low-level EDA scripting, giving him a practical appreciation for both infrastructure reliability and developer ergonomics. Pragmatic and migration-focused, he excels at untangling legacy systems and delivering repeatable tooling that reduces operational friction.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Spanish, Chinese, English