Li Zhang
Software Engineer at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Zhang is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, cost-conscious distributed systems across Meta, T-Mobile, Amazon and startups. At Meta he architects large-scale ingestion and extraction pipelines that process hundreds of millions of records per day and implemented a ratings extraction cache that saved $3M/year while keeping precision above 90%. He has a track record of simplifying complex workflows—consolidating review ingestion into a single reliable pipeline and cutting on-call tickets by >70%—and of delivering measurable cost savings such as replacing DynamoDB with EFS to save $10k/month. Trained at Carnegie Mellon, he blends strong software architecture and backend/cloud expertise with pragmatic automation, monitoring, and API design. Colleagues rely on him to convert research and brittle systems into scalable, operationally efficient services.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Northeastern University (CN)Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
robotics10
lists10
collision10
ignition10
robot10
ros10
astar9
spin8
autopilot7
autonomous-vehicles7
ros-driver6
depth6
simulation6
odometry5
camera4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wpfhtl/demo_rgbd
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:84 commits in 8 months
jizhang-cmu/ground_based_autonomy_basic
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Autonomous Navigation and Collision Avoidance for Ground Robots
Contributions:145 commits, 6 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 3 months
roboticsautonomouscollision-avoidanceavoidancerobots
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