Weide Zhang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coupang
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolWeide Zhang is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Cupertino with over a decade building high-performance, cloud-native and perception systems for robotics and autonomous driving. He has led engineering teams at Coupang, Autel Robotics, FAW AI and Baidu, driving data ingestion, large-scale ML workflows, and real-time serving infrastructure for sensor-heavy applications and robotics. His background spans low-latency ad serving and search at Microsoft and Yahoo to architecting distributed training and simulation platforms, demonstrating rare depth across systems, data infrastructure, and perception. He contributed to the well-known Apollo autonomous driving project by integrating core libraries and point-cloud adapters, reflecting hands-on DevOps and backend expertise. Known for squeezing performance from distributed systems at scale, he combines pragmatic engineering with research-level problem solving—e.g., enabling centimeter-level depth estimation for obstacle avoidance in drones. He holds graduate training in systems and computer science from the University of Virginia and dual undergraduate degrees in CS and Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Mathematics (Double Major), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Mathematics (Double Major) at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, System and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, System and Information Engineering at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
build-system10
bazel10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
autonomous-driving10
computer-vision9
yaml7
nvidia6
nodejs6
ejabberd6
docker6
mongooseim6
erlang6
dockers6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ApolloAuto/apollo
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
An open autonomous driving platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:254 commits, 80 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Weide's commits indicate a focus on integrating and configuring external libraries (PCL, OpenCV, YAML-cpp) and dependencies within the Apollo autonomous driving platform. Their contributions include adding and configuring these libraries, demonstrating an understanding of build systems. The user also worked on integrating a point cloud adapter and configuring the environment, suggesting a role that combines back-end development with aspects of DevOps.
autonomous-drivingapolloautonomous-vehiclesautonomyself-driving-car
weidezhang/dev
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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