Summary
Minlin Zhang is an engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with six years of experience building and leading teams that deliver resilient, cloud-native distributed systems. Having led platform and teleoperation efforts at Nuro and driven large-scale backend services and migrations at Hulu, Minlin combines deep systems design with hands-on execution across Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform. Now at Meta, they focus on scaling complex infrastructure while mentoring engineers and guiding technical strategy. Notably adept at rapid problem-solving, Minlin once reduced a critical P99 latency from 15s to 400ms during a high-pressure sprint, reflecting a talent for performance tuning and pragmatic architecture. Their background from Peking University in communications and information systems complements a pragmatic, research-informed approach to engineering leadership. The concise GitHub aphorism hints at a reflective mindset that values thoughtful effort over idle ambition.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Communication and Information Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng Communication and Information Systems at Peking University
Chinese, English