Matthew Zhou
Assistant Chief Data Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Zhou is an interdisciplinary data leader and technologist with 10 years of experience designing and operationalizing large-scale data platforms across healthcare, media, and government. Currently Assistant Chief Data Officer for California, he blends policy, governance, and engineering to build privacy-forward, user-centric data ecosystems for public services. Previously he led data platform and privacy engineering at Peloton and VillageMD, scaling ETL, streaming, and Snowflake migrations that supported millions of patient records and 100M+ daily events. Trained as an anthropologist with an MPH in Health Informatics, he brings a rare mix of social-science curiosity and production-grade data engineering chops. He has hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, and machine learning deployment, and a track record of turning compliance and ethics requirements into developer-friendly frameworks. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex governance into practical engineering solutions that balance privacy, scale, and usability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Health Informatics, Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Health Informatics at Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology (Human Biology), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology (Human Biology) at Northwestern University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
matthewzhou/Python-Projects
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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matthewzhou/FederalistPapers
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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