Xiang Zhang
Senior Data Engineer
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolXiang Zhang is a Senior Data Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and a two-decade software engineering background, specializing in high-performance, parallel and distributed systems and GPU acceleration. He led the AleaGPU project that bridged CUDA with the .NET ecosystem (C# and F#), and has repeatedly built production-grade, low-latency software for finance and trading firms. Xiang has held technical leadership roles from CTO to principal architect and currently applies his expertise to data engineering at IMC Trading. An active contributor to F# tooling, he has improved code formatting and documentation parsing (including LaTeX support) in notable community projects, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level performance tuning and developer tooling craft. Based in Winterthur, Switzerland, he combines deep CUDA-era experience (since 2007) with modern data engineering practice and a pragmatic focus on turning complex parallel algorithms into maintainable production systems.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Applied Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Applied Technology at University of Science and Technology Beijing
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
markdown10
fsharp10
document-generation10
markdown-it10
documents10
documentation10
code-formatting10
latex9
cuda6
compilation6
gpgpu6
visual-studio6
gpu6
llvm-ir6
llvm6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/FSharp.Formatting
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
F# tools for generating documentation (Markdown processor and F# code formatter)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Xiang's commits primarily focus on enhancing the F# code formatting and documentation generation tools. They introduced features to support union cases and record fields, extending the functionality of the metadata format. The user also refactored method names for brevity and added support for LaTeX formatting within the markdown parser, improving the documentation capabilities. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the project's core functionality related to F# code analysis and documentation.
fsharpcode-formatterformattermarkdown-processormarkdown
quantalea/AleaTK
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 5 months
numerical-computingpythonmachine-learningpurposetensor
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