Haili Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHaili Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native data and infrastructure platforms, currently leading development of an LLM-powered data analytics platform for M365 at Microsoft. He combines deep systems and backend expertise—Rust services, Apache Arrow/DataFusion, ClickHouse at scale—and a track record migrating monoliths to resilient microservice PaaS with multi-region disaster recovery. Haili has repeatedly delivered large-scale, high-availability systems (10K QPS with five nines SLA, PB-level analytics) and improved release velocity and MTTR through platform engineering and automation. He pairs technical leadership with hands-on coding, having designed efficient data federation/fusion and transparent encryption layers for sensitive datasets. Based in Vancouver, he’s equally at home optimizing distributed query engines and logging long cycling rides during off-hours.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at China University of Petroleum, BeijingHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Yangcun No.1 High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (49)
scraper10
alerts10
scrapy10
crawler10
python9
crawling9
operator9
prometheus-operator8
linux8
monitor8
kubernetes7
prometheus7
vscode6
vim6
vscode-extension6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stillzhl/stillzhl.github.io
Dec 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 9 months
stillzhl/MSAggregator
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
A Generic Aggregator For Microservice Endpoints
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
endpointsgenericmicroservicesmicroserviceaggregator
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