Tian Zhang
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTian Zhang is a cloud and distributed-systems-focused software engineer with six years of professional experience and a strong research background from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He is passionate about database research and building novel architectures aimed at achieving an order-of-magnitude performance improvement over current systems. Based in Mountain View, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering to tackle scalability and latency challenges in cloud-native environments. Tian’s work is driven by a determination to rethink foundations rather than incremental tweaks, making him comfortable in roles that bridge prototype research and production-grade systems. Though early in his career, his academic training and ambition position him to contribute to high-impact infrastructure projects and disruptive database designs.
6 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Peking UniversityThe University of Utah
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
realtime10
kafka10
data-platform10
java10
redpanda10
event-driven10
api10
stream-processing10
microservices10
cpp10
streaming10
jvm9
zookeeper9
storage-engine9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
utah-scs/v8
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
The official mirror of the V8 Git repository
Contributions:9 pushes in 5 years 6 months
git-repositorylibgit2v8-javascript-engine
tiantianz/redpanda
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Redpanda is the real-time engine for modern apps. Kafka API Compatible; 10x faster 🚀 See more at vectorized.io/redpanda
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
kafka-apiapi10xvectorizedfaster
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