Lei Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Drivemode
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and developer tooling across startups and tech giants. He has driven large-scale projects at Google (photo indexing, resource management, and Dialogflow platform), led API and integrations work at PayPal, and continues to shape platform engineering at Drivemode. A true software generalist, he moves comfortably between languages and domains, prizes clear trade-off reasoning, and excels at cutting through ambiguity to design pragmatic solutions. He pairs deep technical craft with a human-centered approach to leadership, observing and motivating colleagues respectfully to get the best from teams. Known for dividing hard problems into manageable parts, he brings startup agility and enterprise-grade rigor to long-lived systems. Based in Los Altos, he blends systems thinking with curiosity rooted in both computer vision and CS graduate training.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Master’s Degree Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesJohns Hopkins University
python, c, javascript, kotlin
Github Skills (28)
docker8
kubernetes8
go7
kotlin6
java6
json6
developer-tools5
scheduling5
machine-learning5
kubernetes-cluster5
visualization5
json-parser4
google4
storage4
gcp4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
googlegsa/manager.v3
Oct 2008 - May 2009
Contributions:19 commits in 6 months
helm/community
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Helm community content
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
helm-chartskubernetescncfhelm
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