Jun Zhou
Software Engineer, Instagram at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Zhou is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance infrastructure at Meta, currently focused on Instagram. He co-created and maintains Thrift-Python and is a top contributor to Facebook's fbthrift, adding performance-focused Cython annotations and server features that improve backend efficiency. Former tech lead across Ads Experiment Platform and Ads Dev Infra, he combines hands-on systems programming in C++/Python with practical leadership in large-scale production environments. Based in San Jose, he balances engineering with hands-on hobbies—woodworking and LEGO—that reflect a preference for elegant, tangible solutions to complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Peking University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
3,070reputation
96kreached
42answers
6questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
activerecord
top-5%
rails-migrations
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
python10
cython10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
serialization9
data-serialization9
rails-migrations9
performance-optimization9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
networking8
shell6
macos6
tmux6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fbthrift
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:258 commits, 1 issue in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jun primarily contributed to the Facebook Thrift project by modifying and adding features to the Python and C++ code. Their work involved incorporating Cython annotations to improve performance, adding and manipulating data structures like structs and unions. The commits also show involvement in improving the server functionality by adding methods for handling and exposing specific idle timeout settings and features.
cppapache-thriftc-plus-plusapachefacebook
libredmm/opendmm
Dec 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:135 pushes, 4 branches, 3 comments in 4 years 5 months
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