Max Zhang
Senior Engineering Manager at Coupang
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Zhang is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Bellevue with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale backend and distributed systems. He combines hands-on expertise in C/C++ and Go with deep knowledge of networking and media protocols (RTSP/RTMP/HLS/SIP/RTP), data stores, and streaming open-source technologies like Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, and Spark. At Coupang he leads cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade, scalable services, drawing on prior engineering roles at Facebook and Expedia. Max brings strong system-level programming skills—multi-threading, algorithms, and data modeling—plus a researcher’s rigor from PhD studies, which helps him translate complex distributed systems research into practical, high-throughput production solutions. He’s a self-starter who values mentoring and shipping reliable systems while actively exploring low-level and media-centric open-source tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Renmin University of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (33)
network-protocol10
zoom-us9
struct8
rtp8
wechat8
video-library8
http-authentication8
golang8
reflect7
slack7
telegram7
robot7
audio7
raspberry-pi7
streaming6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
max-min/streams
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
轻便的gb28181协议中的rtp+ps格式视频流的封装和解析
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 year 8 months
raspberry-pirtpgb28181
max-min/max-min
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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