Wendy Zhang
Clinical Fellow at Stanford Hospitals & Clinics
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWendy Zhang is a Stanford-trained physician-scientist and clinical fellow in Palo Alto with a decade of experience bridging medicine and systems programming. She progressed from medical student researcher to resident physician and now clinical fellow at Stanford Hospitals & Clinics, while contributing backend code to high-performance open-source projects like Legion (parallel programming) and Demikernel (kernel-bypass libOS), showing uncommon fluency in both clinical care and low-level distributed systems. Her engineering work focuses on index-space management, cross-product optimizations, and networking/packet parsing—skills that reflect a methodical, performance-minded approach to problem solving. Comfortable in academic, clinical, and open-source environments, she brings rigorous data-driven thinking to clinical innovation and software engineering. Colleagues describe her as a meticulous implementer who can translate complex domain requirements into efficient, production-ready code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Henry M. Gunn High SchoolDoctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Stanford University School of MedicineBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
dpdk10
parallel-processing10
c-language10
parallel10
parallel-computing10
cprogramming-language10
parallelization10
networking10
apidoc9
kernel-mode9
linux9
bypass9
api9
ubuntu8
rdma7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
StanfordLegion/legion
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
The Legion Parallel Programming System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Wendy primarily contributed to the Legion Parallel Programming System by implementing and refining core functionalities related to index spaces and cross-product operations. Their work included adding new features for cross-product calculations, optimizing existing code, and addressing issues within the partitioning mechanisms. The commits showcase a focus on improving the efficiency and capabilities of the system's internal operations related to managing and manipulating index spaces. The user was also involved in adding C API functionality.
system-programminglegionparallel-programmingparallel
microsoft/demikernel
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Kernel-Bypass LibOS Architecture
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Wendy contributed to the Demikernel project by implementing features related to networking and packet processing. Their work involved modifying DPDK packet generation to conform to header formats and adjusting packet parsing to account for byte ordering. They also integrated features like printing IP addresses in human-readable format and adding prerequisites for Azure Ubuntu. Additionally, the user added a macro to conditionally enable profiling.
spdkkernellinuxdpdkbypass
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