Hongcheng Zhu
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongcheng Zhu is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and observability platforms. He led major reliability and cost-saving re-architectures at Databricks and previously drove high-throughput, multi-tenant AI inference infrastructure and control-plane scaling at Facebook. His background spans search and ads infrastructure at Google and Baidu, and he contributes to PyTorch distributed work, reflecting deep systems and ML-infrastructure expertise. As a founder of TickerTick he built a public AWS-backed API that serves 10,000 daily calls powering web, mobile, and bot clients, showing a knack for product-focused engineering. He pairs hands-on C++ and distributed-systems skills with pragmatic leadership that turns single points of failure into zero-downtime services. Quietly entrepreneurial and pragmatic, he blends research-grade algorithm thinking (recommendation/ads focus) with production-hardened engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (39)
graph-algorithms10
distributed-training10
parallel10
python10
network-analysis10
statistics10
machine-learning10
graph-analysis10
industrial10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
android-app10
graph-visualization10
android10
gestures10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tz28/deep-learning
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:83 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
tz28/Chinese-number-gestures-recognition
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
基于卷积神经网络的数字手势识别安卓APP，识别数字手势0-10（The number gestures recognition Android APP based on convolutional neural network(CNN), which can recognize the gestures corresponding number 0 to 10）
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
recognizerecognitionconvolutional-neural-networkconvolutionalandroid
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