Kang Zhang
Digital Design Engineer at Meta
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKang Zhang is a Digital Design Engineer with 16 years of experience designing memory subsystems and cache controllers, currently contributing to hardware design at Meta from New Jersey. He brings deep VLSI and logic design expertise developed through progressive roles at Marvell—spanning ARMv7 memory subsystems to DRAM final-level cache controllers—and a Master’s in VLSI from the University of Michigan. Kang pairs formal hardware design skills with practical software integration, demonstrated by significant open-source backend contributions to the widely used jaraco/keyring project, where he added KDE Kwallet and Windows CryptAPI support via C++ and Python bindings. Known for bridging low-level silicon design and cross-platform software glue, he excels at making complex substrate components reliable and portable across ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., VLSI, M.S., VLSI at University of MichiganB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
python10
back-end-development10
k10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
dbus8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jaraco/keyring
Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:73 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kang contributed significantly to the keyring library, focusing on integrating and expanding its backend capabilities. Their work included adding support for KDE's Kwallet, implementing the necessary C++ code and Python bindings. They also refactored the setup process, improved the build system, and integrated support for user-defined keyring implementations, enhancing the library's flexibility and platform compatibility. Furthermore, the user's contribution extends to the addition of Win32CryptoKeyring by incorporating Windows CryptAPI.
kangzhang/ig-json-parser
May 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:36 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 5 months
java-projectsparserjavajsonjson-parser
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