Liqin Zhang
Software Engineer II at Snowflake
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiqin Zhang is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building large-scale data ingestion and ETL systems, currently driving data infrastructure at Snowflake after impactful stints at TikTok. He combines deep expertise in Flink, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop and Airflow with full-stack fluency in Java/Scala/Python and modern cloud-native CI/CD practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) to ship production-grade pipelines. Comfortable across streaming and batch workloads, he also brings hands-on experience in runtime engines and orchestration for high-throughput distributed systems. Educated at Columbia (MS) and SJTU (BS) with a visiting period at MIT, he blends strong academic foundations with practical product delivery. Notably, his background spans both data catalog/lineage work and teaching assistant roles, signaling an ability to communicate complex systems clearly to engineers and students alike. Located in Menlo Park, he pairs Bay Area engineering sensibilities with a track record of moving prototypes into resilient, monitored production services.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Computer Science, Visiting Student Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (47)
predict9
classification-model8
spotify8
docker-compose8
kotlin-android7
docker-image7
golang7
java7
docker7
kotlin7
command-line-tool6
binary-tree6
protobuf6
densenet6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
graveszhang/LeetCode-Practice
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:285 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
liqin-z/liqin-z
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6305 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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