Ji Zhang
Director Of Engineering, Ads Quality at Instacart
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJi Zhang is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building data and ML platforms across fintech and ad tech, currently serving as Director of Engineering for Ads Quality at Instacart. He has led R&D and platform teams at Georgian, driving applied AI experiments and a fintech investment platform, and held senior engineering roles at Amazon, Bloomberg, and IBM. Ji combines hands-on software craftsmanship—evidenced by open-source contributions to the prominent detekt static-analysis project—with strategic delivery of production-grade systems that enable high-speed innovation. Based in Toronto, he specializes in designing and operating scalable data and machine learning infrastructure that bridges research and product needs.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Software, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Software at Zhengzhou UniversityMaster of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Master of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
static-code-analysis10
gradlew10
software-quality10
gradle10
static-page9
static-site9
static-content9
static-files9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
detekt/detekt
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Static code analysis for Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:783 reviews, 210 commits, 312 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ji contributed to the detekt repository by implementing the `ImplicitDefaultLocale` rule, which enhances code quality by addressing potential localization issues. The user also refactored and improved the Gradle integration tests. Furthermore, the user merged XML report output and made improvements to SARIF report.
linterlintanalysisstatic-code-analysiscode-quality
chao2zhang/OpenGL
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:40 commits in 1 month
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