Hongyue Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongyue Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend systems across AWS, Apple, and now Snowflake, based in Seattle. He holds a BASc with honors from the University of Toronto and started his career working on DB2 quality before moving into web and cloud services at Amazon where he became fluent in AWS technologies like SWF, DynamoDB, and EC2. At Apple he focused on AI/ML-enabled features for Siri and later advanced to senior engineering roles, bringing production-grade machine learning integration experience to consumer products. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Apache Iceberg, improving Spark integrations and partitioning logic—demonstrating a depth in data engineering and distributed systems. Known for shipping reliable services and pragmatic problem-solving, he blends systems-level thinking with practical web and Android programming skills. Actively looking for impactful full-time opportunities across the US and Canada, he brings both hands-on implementation expertise and cross-domain product experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), with Honors, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), with Honors at University of Toronto
Github Skills (8)
ice10
javas10
spark10
apache10
java10
apache-iceberg10
python9
data-engineering8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:469 reviews, 7 commits, 88 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hongyue primarily contributed to the Apache Iceberg project by implementing and enhancing features within the Spark ecosystem. Their work includes adding support for parallelism in operations such as RemoveOrphanFiles, and fixing date-add function in the IcebergSourceFlatParquetDataWriteBenchmark. They also contributed to several python modules, including those related to literals and partitioning functionalities. Moreover, the user was involved in code changes within the Spark extension, resolving an issue in the AddFiles procedure.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
dramaticlly/dotfile
Jan 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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