Lingkun Z
Staff Software Engineer at Coupang
Shanghai, United States
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Top SchoolLingkun Z is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends a Ph.D. background in physics with hands-on expertise in full-stack development, data engineering, and blockchain research. He has led engineering teams and delivered production systems at scale for companies including TikTok and Coupang, with specialties in Golang, Java, JavaScript, Python, high-TPS blockchain sharding, and cryptographic consensus algorithms. His work spans web ads, e-commerce integrations, and high-performance backend systems, and he pairs research-grade analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering to drive product outcomes. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and distributed systems, he also brings experience designing GUIs and ML tooling from his scientific research roots.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Visiting Scholar Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Visiting Scholar Physics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (43)
aho-corasick10
trie9
tuple9
levenshtein-distance9
double9
kotlin8
fasttext8
java8
compiler-construction6
linux6
linux-kernel6
python6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kun368/ACManager
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 159 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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kun368/PlaneWar
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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