Haitao Zhang
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarHaitao Zhang is a Member of Technical Staff and seasoned distributed systems engineer with 11+ years in industry and a PhD in networking from UCLA, known for scaling large data ingestion and streaming platforms. He has led cross-continental teams at TikTok and StarTree and built core Kafka resilience and consumer infrastructures at Uber that improved availability, observability, and operational ergonomics. At Apple and StarTree he focused on data ingestion for AI/ML and real-time analytics, and he currently contributes to next-generation systems at OpenAI. With 15+ years of Java experience and a deep research background in network architectures, he combines rigorous protocol-level thinking with hands-on production engineering. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he often bridges research insights and production constraints—evident in designs like out-of-order commit, dead-letter queues, and multi-level resource isolation that reduce alerts and improve system reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
data-stream10
apache-pinot10
realtime10
apache-flink10
pinot10
big-data10
apache10
datastore10
java10
olap10
dialect7
forwarding7
daemon6
identity-manager5
api5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhtaoxiang/AccessManager
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 17 pushes in 3 months
zhtaoxiang/pinot
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:344 pushes, 78 branches in 2 years 3 months
realtimecommonsaccumuloparquetolap
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