Tian Zhou
Deep Learning Software Engineer at Black Sesame Technologies Inc
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTian Zhou is a Deep Learning Software Engineer with a decade of experience building efficient neural networks and production ML pipelines for edge devices. Currently at Black Sesame Technologies, he focuses on model compression—pruning, distillation, and quantization—to optimize the tradeoff between latency and accuracy across the full data-to-deployment lifecycle. He has a strong research background from Columbia and Zhejiang University, applied to problems from fine-grained visual recognition (Leafsnap) to recommendation systems and scalable backend engineering. Tian also contributes to cloud-native open source—enhancing RPC routing, load balancing, and circuit breaker logic in the popular go-chassis framework—bringing practical systems experience to ML deployment challenges. Based in California, he blends academic rigor (MS with a 3.92 GPA) and hands-on engineering to make resource-constrained AI run reliably in production.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), CS, 3.92/4.00, Master of Science (MS), CS, 3.92/4.00 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), CS, 3.89/4.00, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), CS, 3.89/4.00 at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
restful10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
grpc9
distributed-systems9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
circuit-breaker8
cloud-native8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
go-chassis/go-chassis
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
a cloud native application framework for Go with rich eco-system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 33 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tian primarily focused on enhancing the routing capabilities of the go-chassis framework. They implemented routing rules for RPC protocols, enabling the use of routing rules with RPC services. The user modified various files including router_test.go, router.go, router_config.go, and handler/loadbalance_handler.go, demonstrating involvement in core routing logic, configuration, and load balancing. Additionally, they addressed compatibility issues with the service center and made improvements to the circuit breaker handler.
circuit-breakerecogrpcistiomicroservice
ninokop/ninokop.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:71 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
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