Linda Zheng
Algorithm Engineer at Hudson River Trading
United States
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Top SchoolLinda Zheng is an algorithm engineer with seven years of software engineering experience, blending low-level performance work with production trading systems at Hudson River Trading. She has strong systems and back-end chops honed through internships at Meta, Instagram, Shopify, and Wish, and contributed to Meta’s Cinder — a high-profile, performance-oriented CPython variant — where she implemented LIR unit tests, refactored a register allocator, and translated C helpers into LIR. A University of Waterloo software engineering student, Linda moves comfortably between algorithmic thinking and pragmatic engineering, focusing on performance-sensitive code paths. Her background in data relevancy and data science internships complements her systems work, giving her a rare full-stack perspective on latency, correctness, and reliability.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate High School Diploma at Colonel By Secondary SchoolBachelor's of Software Engineering, Bachelor's of Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French
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Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
compiler10
c-language10
compiler-compiler10
runtimes10
cprogramming-language10
interpreter10
jit10
python10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebookincubator/cinder
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Linda's primary contributions involved enhancing the Cinder project, a performance-oriented production version of CPython. They focused on implementing unit tests, specifically for integer loading in the LIR (Low-Level Intermediate Representation) generation phase. Furthermore, the user added features for logging C helper function usage and refactored the register allocator to handle instructions with side effects. Their work also included translating C helper functions into LIR.
pythoninternaljitcinderruntime
linda-zheng/linda-zheng.github.io
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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