Jesse Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Positron AI
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust embedded and platform software that enables higher-level developers to move fast and confidently. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he has shipped firmware and platform stability improvements across automotive (Lucid Motors), consumer devices and cloud-integrated services (Amazon), and is currently advancing embedded AI platform work at Positron AI. His contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Traffic Server highlight a practical focus on test automation and reliability for complex networked systems. Jesse blends low-level kernel and hardware troubleshooting with production-focused automation, and his background in metagenomic data compression signals a long-standing strength in algorithmic thinking applied to real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMath, Science, Technology Program, Math, Science, Technology Program at duPont Manual High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
test-framework10
curl10
test-automation10
testing10
python9
http8
apache7
proxy7
cdn6
caching6
object-cache6
memory-cache6
web-cache6
disk-cache6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 39 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse's commits primarily focus on enhancing the testing infrastructure for Apache Traffic Server. They made several modifications to existing test cases, including adding skip conditions for tests depending on specific features like HTTP/2 support and plugin availability. Further contributions involve modifications to the test execution flow by adding delays and adjusting parameters for testing the proxy and related features. Their work also includes creating new test cases for features like redirection and SSL/TLS configurations.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
macisasandwich/trafficserver
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Mirror of Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:5 PRs, 343 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years
javaapachetraffic
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