Wei Zhang
Vice President, Principal Engineer at BNY Mellon
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Zhang is a Vice President and Principal Engineer with over 20 years of technology experience and more than a decade focused on enterprise architecture and big data solutions. Based in Jersey City, he designs and builds high-throughput real-time data platforms and financial knowledge graphs using technologies such as Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, RDF stores, Scala/Akka, and containerized CI/CD pipelines. His hands-on background spans banking and healthcare — transforming legacy systems into Hadoop/Spark hubs, building pricing and reconciliation engines, and operationalizing streaming analytics at scale. A physicist by training with MS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, he brings a research-minded approach to production engineering and a knack for blending rule engines, graph databases, and reactive streaming in mission-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at The City College of New YorkMS, Physics, MS, Physics at Fudan UniversityBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Peking University
Github Skills (9)
sparql3
scala2
akka2
akka-streams2
reactive2
dotty1
sbt1
mustache1
template-engine1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lanliwz/FastCDC
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
lanliwz/neo4j-onto2ai-toolset
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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