Jason Zhang
R&D Director at Baidu, Inc.
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Zhang is an R&D Director based in Beijing with over a decade of experience designing scalable distributed systems, web-asynchronous architectures, and NLP/ML solutions. He leads cross-functional teams at Baidu, blending hands-on backend engineering in Modern C++ and Python with product and test management to deliver production-grade services. His technical breadth spans Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS/HBase/ZooKeeper), large-scale image and face recognition, sentiment analysis on social media, and REST API design. A former principal engineer at Symantec, he is fluent in both Java/JEE and Python web stacks, messaging systems like RabbitMQ, and database clustering and optimization. He pairs classical software engineering—design patterns, agile XP/Scrum—with deep operational knowledge of Linux, Nginx, Memcached and payment integrations. Notably, he combines research-grade NLP and machine learning experience with practical deployment expertise, moving models from prototype to high-throughput production systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Software Engineering, 99, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Software Engineering, 99 at ShangHai JiaoTong university
English
Github Skills (51)
c-language10
io-uring10
formatting10
storage10
machine-learning10
build-system10
industrial10
rpc10
unicode10
high-performance10
multiplatform9
printf9
time-tracking9
floating-point9
c-library9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jasonszang/youtube-dl
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
downloadervideosyoutubeyoutube-dlvideo-sites
jasonszang/brpc
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Most common RPC framework used throughout Baidu, with 600,000+ instances and 500+ kinds of services, called "baidu-rpc" inside Baidu.
Contributions:23 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 2 months
instancesrpcframeworkrpc-frameworkhessian
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