Lily Zhou
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Zhou is a software engineer focused on distributed systems and backend infrastructure, currently contributing to Snowflake after building the distributed metadata layer for Azure Storage. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a double major in Computer Science and History and earned Distinction in CS, combining rigorous technical depth with a habit of intellectual curiosity beyond engineering. At Microsoft she owned end-to-end projects that improved observability, resiliency, and cross-cluster data hosting, and she has a track record of shrinking latencies and hardening workflows under failure conditions. Her internships ranged from erasure-coded geo-replication work to designing concurrency tests and optimizing distributed libraries, showing a consistent emphasis on correctness and performance. Outside core systems work she led a campus software project used by thousands and contributed to a published bioinformatics visualization tool, reflecting an ability to move between research, product, and production. She’s energized by root-causing concurrency bugs, 20th-century East European history, and problems that force her to “think and think again.”
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Computer Science and History, Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Computer Science and History at Yale UniversityGPA: 4.18/4.00, GPA: 4.18/4.00 at The Hockaday SchoolJerome Fisher Management & Technology Summer Institute, Jerome Fisher Management & Technology Summer Institute at University of Pennsylvania
ChineseGithub contributions (5)
lilyzff/lilyzff.github.io
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jirengu-inc/jrg-renwu6
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 45 pushes in 5 months
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