Isaac Zhou
Software Engineer at Amazon
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac Zhou is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production-critical infrastructure across Amazon Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Lyft, and startups. He designs and implements scalable backend systems and APIs—most recently powering Amazon’s Commitments Hub with AI-driven insights—and has rebuilt feed indexing and retrieval engines in Rust for LinkedIn and managed fleet operations for 10M+ servers at Meta. Isaac’s background spans ads, mapping, and ML-serving pipelines, with a track record of improving operational efficiency, data consistency, and monetization (including a subscription ads system that drove notable revenue and growth). He blends strong systems design with hands-on implementation across languages and cloud platforms, and is comfortable shipping both microservices and stateful, high-throughput systems. Based in Mountain View, he pairs rigorous academic training from Carnegie Mellon with practical experience tuning mission-critical services at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsNon Degree Undergraduate Visiting Student Computer Science, Non Degree Undergraduate Visiting Student Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
database9
embeddable9
persistent9
storage9
key-value-store8
storage-engine8
key-value-database8
lsm-tree7
key-value7
bigtable7
persistent-storage7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Harpuia/chaos-monkeys-ml-platform
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:108 commits, 1 push, 10 branches in 2 months
Harpuia/ML-on-Coursera
Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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