Summary
Junliang Zhang is an Engineering Team Lead based in the New York City area with nine years of professional experience building backend systems and leading teams at Bloomberg. He brings hands-on expertise in Java, Python, PHP and JavaScript across Linux and Windows environments, and has practical experience with LAMP stacks, Hadoop and Spark along with MySQL, Couchbase and Aerospike. Junliang progressed from software engineer to senior roles at engage:BDR before joining Bloomberg, where he now blends technical ownership with team leadership on large-scale data and services platforms. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MS, Computer Science, USC) with a pragmatic focus on reliable, high-performance systems and operational tooling. Notably, his cross-stack fluency and experience with both traditional RDBMS and modern distributed stores make him adept at bridging legacy services and scalable data architectures.
10 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 University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Shanghai University