Kunyuan Zhang
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunyuan Zhang is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 8 years of experience building large-scale, low-latency metrics and compute provisioning systems across cloud infrastructure. He led teams at AWS to design near-real-time metrics pipelines, integrated instance-level telemetry into ECS and CloudWatch with significant latency gains, and pioneered cross-host aggregation using Kinesis for billions of weekly tasks. An active open-source contributor, he extended OpenTelemetry’s statsdreceiver to support timers, sample rates, and standardized metric types used widely in the community. Now at Oracle he focuses on Tier-0 compute provisioning for large GPU workloads across regions, combining deep systems engineering with production readiness and automated operations. Collected technical breadth—from daemon-level integrations and GenAI-driven anomaly detection to dashboarding and SOPs—makes him effective at turning complex telemetry into actionable, reliable cloud services.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Eelectronic & Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Eelectronic & Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.83/4, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.83/4 at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor's degree (exchange), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.85, Bachelor's degree (exchange), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.85 at McGill University
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (4)
opentelemetry10
go10
statsd10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kunyuan primarily contributed to the `statsdreceiver` component, focusing on implementing new features and improving existing functionality. They added support for timer metrics, including parsing and aggregation. The user refactored code to handle sample rates for counters and gauges. They also updated the component to align with OpenTelemetry standards by changing types and adding aggregation for gauge and counter metrics.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
gavindoudou/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:84 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingcollectoropentelemetry
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