Shen Zhu
Senior Software Engineer II at Instacart
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShen Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer II based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and stream-processing infrastructure. Currently at Instacart, Shen combines production engineering at scale with deep open-source contributions, notably refactoring metric and operator instantiation in the widely used Apache Flink project. His background includes backend systems work at Bloomberg and internships and research roles at Columbia, Microsoft, and Yahoo, reflecting strong academic and industry breadth. Shen holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia and maintains a technical blog, signaling active engagement with the developer community. Known for improving code maintainability and consistency in complex codebases, he brings pragmatic craftsmanship to observability and streaming challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tongji UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
big-data10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
java10
metric10
testing9
scala8
sql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shen primarily focused on migrating and refactoring metric-related instantiations within the Apache Flink codebase. They modified several test files, specifically focusing on internal operator and task metric groups and associated components to improve the code structure. The commits involved adapting factory methods for instantiating various operator metric groups, demonstrating a focus on improving code maintainability and consistency within the Flink metrics system.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
JihaoZhang/TuSimple-Graph-Language
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 72 pushes in 1 month
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