Shuyang Zhao
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolShuyang Zhao is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in distributed systems, currently building scalable observability infrastructure at Datadog in the New York City area. He blends a strong academic foundation—a MS in Computer Science from Columbia—with practical experience across signal/network I/O design for railway systems and NLP-driven trading/risk applications. Shuyang’s background spans embedded and cloud-native domains, giving him a knack for turning low-level protocol constraints into reliable, production-grade services. Comfortable shipping cross-platform solutions (iOS, desktop, voice) and operating in high-availability environments, he brings discipline from safety-critical railway work to fast-moving observability engineering. An understated strength is his ability to bridge domain expertise (railways, finance) with modern distributed-system patterns to solve complex operational problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Harbin Institute of Technology
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
compression6
lz44
gzip4
golang4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/golz4-2
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Golang interface to LZ4 compression, no fork dependency
Contributions:24 PRs, 29 pushes, 13 branches in 7 months
golanggolang-interfacecompressionlz4-compressiongzip
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