Irene Zhang
Senior Software Enginner at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIrene Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience specializing in camera imaging, digital image processing, and image quality validation for Surface devices. She has led end-to-end camera quality efforts for Surface Pro 12-inch and contributed to multiple shipped devices from Surface Pro 6 to Surface Duo, combining lab optics testing with automation and image-analysis software. Her work spans embedded SW/FW, test fixture development, and scripting in Python, C#, and PowerShell to quantify metrics like MTF, chromatic aberration, and stabilization performance. At Microsoft Research she engages in principled research practice and also contributes to low-level open-source systems like the Demikernel project, where she implemented and optimized file and network I/O. With a B.S. in ECE from Rice and an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, she brings both rigorous academic training and hands-on systems experience to bridge imaging research and production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, ECE, Bachelor’s Degree, ECE at Rice UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level Examinations: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, High School, Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level Examinations: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics at Raffles Institution
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-programming10
fileio9
file-access9
kernel-mode9
rdma9
linux9
bypass9
file-handling9
file-processing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/demikernel
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Kernel-Bypass LibOS Architecture
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:634 reviews, 82 commits, 426 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Irene primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Demikernel project, specifically focusing on file and network I/O operations. Their work involved implementing file operations within the posix-queue module, including `open`, `creat`, and `close` functions, and integrating a C interface. Furthermore, they refactored and optimized existing code, including changes to the RDMA queue. These changes appear to be targeted at improving Demikernel's capabilities and interfaces.
spdkkernellinuxdpdkbypass
iyzhang/superhero-network
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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