Tianduo Zhai
Software Engineer at Firsthand
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianduo Zhai is a seasoned software engineer and manager with a decade of experience building large-scale data and imagery systems, most recently leading map data pipeline and street view platforms at Grab that power navigation and safety features across Southeast Asia. Now at Firsthand, he is applying his backend and distributed-systems expertise to build knowledge stores, while drawing on a strong foundation in telecommunications from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Known as a Gopher, he pairs hands-on engineering with team coaching—scaling pipelines that ingest massive imagery volumes and enabling cross-functional use cases like routing and accessibility. His background spans QA, tooling, and product-facing engineering, giving him a practical appreciation for reliability and testing that often guides his architecture decisions. Based in Hoboken, he brings both global product experience and a knack for turning complex geo-data challenges into maintainable, production-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Master's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications学士, 通信工程, 学士, 通信工程 at Hebei University
Chinese
Github Skills (75)
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encoding8
testing8
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authorization8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grab/gosm
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Gosm is a golang library which implements writing OSM pbf files.
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits in 10 months
golanggolang-librarynetlinkgoosm-pbf
zhaitianduo/fleetbase
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
🚚 Fleetbase: Open Source Modular Logistics Platform. Built on Adaptable Extensions to Manage and Orchestrate Logistics Operations.
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 days
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