Simon Zhao
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Zhao is a senior software engineer with 12 years’ experience building high-throughput, high-availability systems for e-commerce and manufacturing, currently applying his expertise to factory software at Tesla in Hangzhou. A Gopher by trade with a strong background in cloud-native DevOps, he has shaped core middle-platform services at Alibaba handling transactions, orders, and product catalog scale. He brings practical MLOps and CI/CD improvements to open-source recommendation tooling—contributing Docker, AzureML, and build reliability fixes to a recommenders repo. Past roles span startup DevOps and ad-platform engineering where he automated content workflows with Go crawlers and maintained large fleets of sites and servers. Known for bridging product thinking with solid engineering, he also has a knack for pragmatic API docs and deployment scripts that accelerate team delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE adm, Bachelor of Engineering - BE adm at Hebei University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
docker10
mlops10
devops10
azure-machine-learning10
dockers10
cicd10
python9
machine-learning8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
recommenders-team/recommenders
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Best Practices on Recommendation Systems
Role in this project:
MLOps Engineer
MLOps EngineerContributions:77 reviews, 34 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the repository. They have made changes to the AzureML test submission script and Dockerfile, indicating a focus on containerization and environment management within the cloud context. The user also addresses build dependencies and software versions, ensuring consistency and reliability across different testing environments.
recommendation-systemspythonjupyter-notebookoperationalizationmicrosoft
SimonYansenZhao/wskm
May 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 8 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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