Lingyi Zhang
Senior Data Engineer II
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolLingyi Zhang is a Senior Data Engineer II based in Washington, DC with eight years of experience building scalable data platforms and geospatial tooling at McKinsey’s QuantumBlack. She has progressed through multiple engineering tiers since joining as a fellow in 2018, contributing to open-source projects like McKinsey’s vizro and earlier public-data work such as the LA LocalGeo CrossWalk. Her background blends applied urban science and economics with hands-on cloud, Python, GIS and serverless API development, enabling her to translate complex spatial and business data into production systems. Known for bridging research-grade analytics and production engineering, she brings a practical appetite for reproducible, scalable data solutions informed by urban informatics.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Technology Economics and Management, Master's degree Technology Economics and Management at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesMaster’s Degree Applied Urban Science and Informatics, Master’s Degree Applied Urban Science and Informatics at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Minzu University of China
Github Skills (22)
plotly-dash10
visualization10
dashboard10
python10
data-visualization10
pydantic10
plotly10
geographic9
spatial9
pandas8
geography8
geopandas8
geospatial8
data-science7
manipulation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lingyielia/PUI2017_lz1714
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 267 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
gui
lingyielia/TextDataAnalysis
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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