William Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, large-scale cloud and networking infrastructure, now based in San Jose. He has led technical efforts at Google Cloud on Workload Identity, Security Token Service, and Zero Trust solutions, and currently drives architecture at Databricks. His background spans FPGA and embedded systems work at Intel and research in micro-computing, giving him uncommon depth across hardware, low-level systems, and cloud security. Will combines a pragmatic automation-first mindset with customer-focused ownership, often diving into lifecycle details to deliver auditable, production-grade solutions. He holds advanced engineering credentials and completed Stanford's LEAD program, reflecting both technical rigor and business-savvy leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex security requirements into robust, scalable authentication and authorization infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Shandong Normal University
Github Skills (8)
google-cloud-platform10
marketplace10
google10
stackdriver10
google-cloud10
google-cloud-marketplace10
k8s10
gcp10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
waterloong/trainer
May 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
waterloong/LRUCache
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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