Kaiyu Zhao
Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiyu Zhao is a Lead Software Engineer in Seattle with 10 years of experience building high-performance query engines and large-scale data systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and blends deep research in information visualization, visual analytics, and data mining with production engineering at companies like Salesforce and Apple. Kaiyu has a strong ML platform background from Apple and a history of turning visualization research into practical tools for finance and scientific applications. He is comfortable across the stack—performance-critical backend systems, ML tooling, and interactive visualizations—and focuses on solving hard data problems at scale. Fluent in both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, he often bridges research ideas to deployable platforms. A detail that hints at his mindset: his GitHub bio (“生于忧患，死于话多”) suggests a disciplined, results-oriented approach rather than talk.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityMaster of Science, Bio-health Informatics, Master of Science, Bio-health Informatics at The University of ManchesterDepartment, Computer Science, 3.78, Department, Computer Science, 3.78 at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science, Health Informatics, 3.64, Master of Science, Health Informatics, 3.64 at Northeastern University
c, c++, java, r, matlab, haskell
Github Skills (31)
visualization10
canvas10
charts10
browser10
apache10
charting10
echarts10
svg10
data-visualization10
javascript9
data-viz9
user-guide8
docker-desktop7
data-analysis5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaiyuzhao/XmdvTool
Sep 2015 - Sep 2021
XmdvTool is an interactive data visualization toolkit for data anlytics
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 31 commits in 6 years
visualizationdata-analysisdata-visualizationdata-science
kaiyuzhao/productivity
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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