Kevin Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput, cost-efficient infrastructure for analytics platforms in the San Francisco Bay Area. At Amplitude he has driven major improvements in query infrastructure—slashing batch processing costs by 50% and reducing batch SLA from days to minutes while lowering on-call burden and DynamoDB burst usage dramatically. His work spans memory and CPU optimization, fair scheduling for multi-tenant systems, real-time ingestion redesigns, and automation that keeps services stable under heavy load. Prior roles across Amazon, fintech, research, and startups show a full-stack fluency from front-end UX to backend APIs and cloud-native deployment. He combines rigorous performance tuning with pragmatic system design and a knack for rewriting brittle legacy systems into scalable, maintainable services. An unusual strength is translating deep observational analysis of load patterns into practical caching, throttling, and query-splitting rules that yield measurable latency and cost wins.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
French, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (14)
creative-commons4
pyautogui4
javascript3
bing3
bots3
amplitude3
script3
react2
sdk2
python2
automation1
ios1
react-native1
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BearMinimum98/Tryit-Editor
Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 7 months
moechat/client
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 2 days
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