Maggie Zhou
Software Engineer at Sierra
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMaggie Zhou is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, user-friendly systems from databases to realtime collaboration. She has led technical efforts at Figma and Slack—driving multiplayer, search, and AI infrastructure—and recently joined Sierra to continue shaping production-grade platforms. Maggie has deep backend expertise in distributed databases, evidenced by her Prometheus integrations for the widely used Vitess project where she modernized metrics and gRPC monitoring. She combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership, mentoring teams while shipping robust solutions at scale. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach and a knack for making complex infra joyful to operate.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at NC School of Science and Math
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Github Skills (8)
go10
prometheus10
metric10
grpc8
mysql7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
cnc6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 19 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maggie primarily contributed to the Prometheus backend integration for Vitess. They refactored the metrics exporting to use Prometheus best practices, including migrating away from the old pull backend interface. They also made significant improvements to metric types and handling, including refactoring the use of Counters and Gauges, and enabling support for DurationFunc and gRPC Prometheus monitoring. The contributions also include adjustments and fixes for existing tests.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
zmagg/zmagg.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2024
repo for github pages page
Contributions:2 PRs, 132 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
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