Woody Zhou
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
United States
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Top SchoolWoody Zhou is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building end-to-end data ecosystems, currently shaping data platforms at Airbnb after leading LinkedIn’s core metadata teams. He architects large-scale metadata, lineage, observability, and policy-driven access systems that power cataloging, data quality, and compliance across complex organizations. Previously at eBay he pioneered lightweight OLAP on HBase, BI self-service platforms, and anomaly-detection-as-a-service, blending data engineering, analytics, and ML infrastructure. Woody is notable for tackling metadata storage consistency and scalability challenges and modernizing frontends with micro-frontend architectures to make metadata extensible and actionable. He combines deep hands-on experience with system-level thinking, frequently turning research-era Hadoop innovations into production-grade data products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Tongji University
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Github Skills (15)
data-governance10
data-catalog10
metadata-management10
linkedin10
metadata10
data-management10
data-profiling10
datahub10
architecture9
factorial6
python6
theano6
google3
ai1
gemini1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
woodyzhou/vimenv
Jan 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
woodyzhou/tmuxenv
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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