Ping Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPing Zhang is a seasoned backend and infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale workflow and data platforms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and an Apache Airflow committer, Ping has deep hands-on expertise in workflow orchestration, log and task-runner improvements, and production Airflow cluster management. Previously a Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, they led the Workflow Orchestration team and drove reliability and observability across data platform pipelines. Their background spans high-frequency quantitative systems at Citadel to engineering roles at Groupon, giving them a rare blend of performance-sensitive and large-scale data infrastructure experience. Ping holds a master's in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a BS in materials physics from USTC, reflecting a strong analytical foundation that informs pragmatic system design. An active open-source contributor, Ping’s Airflow work includes UI log-download improvements and task-runner/configuration enhancements that benefit thousands of users.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Master's Degree Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Materials Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Materials Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
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Github Skills (20)
python10
back-end-development10
data-engineering10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
airflow10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elasticsearch-api10
devops9
nodejs6
passportjs6
angularjs6
docker6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Mar 2017 - Mar 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 75 PRs, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ping primarily contributed to improving the Apache Airflow platform by implementing new features and addressing bugs related to the core functionality. Their work involved enhancements to log downloading from the UI, including the addition of try number, supporting downloading logs by attempts from UI and human-friendly duration format in UI. Furthermore, they made improvements to the codebase by updating the file logging and made changes related to task runner and configurations.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
pingzh/incubator-airflow
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Apache Airflow (Incubating)
Contributions:85 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 9 months
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