Summary
Helin Zhang is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-performance data plane and networking software, currently leading DPDK, OVS, NIC/DPU and platform virtualization efforts at Intel in Shanghai. Her background spans VoIP/SIP, telephony codecs and smartphone development, giving her a rare cross-domain perspective on real-time I/O, protocol design and embedded systems. She specializes in optimizing high-throughput, low-latency IO stacks and has driven work on Storage/SPDK and AI networking integrations. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, she combines deep protocol-level expertise with platform architecture and team leadership. An engineer who started in consumer electronics and moved into carrier-grade networking, she brings pragmatic system-level instincts to complex performance problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Automation, Master of Engineering, Automation at Donghua University
Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering, Automation at Hefei University of Technology