Ray Zhang
Software Engineer at Ellipsis Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Zhang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend and data engineering, currently building distributed systems at Ellipsis Labs in New York. He led the design and open-sourced a Node.js/Kotlin/gRPC BI tool that replaced Metabase at his previous company and earned 300+ GitHub stars, and he maintains the Tellery project. Ray has built production-grade data platforms and ML model management on Spark/Kubernetes, engineered a high-throughput distributed scraper handling 150k+ concurrent rules, and reduced ad-hoc query downtime from ~10 hours to 30 minutes monthly. His background spans fintech trading systems, CI/CD and Kubernetes operator development in Go, and a strong academic foundation with an MS in Computer Science. Colleagues know him for pragmatic system design and a taste for practical open-source impact despite calling his GitHub "mediocre."
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (57)
notebook10
dashboard10
bigquery10
modeling-tool10
data-science10
data-modeling10
data-analytics10
analytics10
dbt10
sql10
data-visualization10
collaboration10
modeling10
database10
toolbox9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Ellipsis-Labs/atlas-release
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Public repo for Atlas node releases
Contributions:16 releases, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 months
tellery/community-supported-connectors
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 8 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
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