Rebecca Zhou
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Zhou is a systems-focused software engineer with five years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, databases, and data pipelines. As an Apache Kvrocks committer and a University of Waterloo CS student, she contributes to vector database work while bringing practical production experience from roles at Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Meta, and NVIDIA. Her strengths span C/C++ and Python, kernel and eBPF research, and time-series/event-driven architectures, enabling end-to-end work from low-level systems to large-scale cloud services. Rebecca pairs academic research with industry internships and open-source impact, and she’s known for choosing pragmatic solutions that keep projects moving upward.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (33)
redis10
redis-protocol10
rocksdb10
redis-cluster10
nosql-database10
database10
key-value9
postgresql9
storage-engine9
parquet8
huggingface7
apache-arrow6
ai6
gpu6
kubeflow6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Beihao-Zhou/Summer-Internships
Jun 2022 - Oct 2025
Collection of Summer 2022 tech internships!
Contributions:279 pushes in 3 years 5 months
internshipssummer
Beihao-Zhou/kvrocks
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.
Contributions:1 PR, 99 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
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