Nathan Zhao
Barista at Rice Coffeehouse
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Zhao is a computer science student at Rice University with 11 years of hands-on experience across software engineering, data engineering, and operational roles, now headed to Jane Street as a Trading Desk Operations Engineer. He has shipped full-stack internal tools integrated with GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and Istio, and has applied machine learning and visualization to support collegiate sports performance and simulation-based learning. A practiced mentor, Nathan has taught Python and advanced algorithms to 200+ students and built educational autograders and custom ML libraries to simplify complex concepts. His background balancing high-throughput retail operations (managing inventory and catering for a student-run coffeehouse) with production engineering gives him a pragmatic edge in reliability and scalability. Nathan’s experience spans cloud-native infrastructure, REST APIs, and applied analytics, and he brings a knack for turning academic theory into practical tooling that broadens who can operate systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Alberta High School Diploma, Alberta High School Diploma at Western Canada High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rice UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at International Baccalaureate
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
linux10
linux-kernel10
linuxkit10
operating-system10
ranking9
exploit9
react8
tor8
hardening8
science8
kernel8
security8
freebsd8
infosec8
information-security7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ndauten/linuxkit
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
Contributions:3 commits, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 days
operating-system
nestedkernel/nestedkernel.github.io
Apr 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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