Summary
Xin Zhou is a Staff Software Engineer based in Shanghai with two decades of industry experience and a PhD-grounded research background in relational DBMS optimization and data integration. Currently driving YouTube Ads data infrastructure, he combines deep C++ and SQL expertise with practical experience building mission-critical, large-scale data warehouses and map-reduce integrations. His career spans research and engineering roles at UCLA, Teradata, Microsoft, and Google, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and production-grade systems design. Known as a self-starter who generates creative solutions to hard problems, he focuses on efficiency, scalability, and novel query/streaming extensions that bridge research ideas and high-throughput ad attribution systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Fudan University
University of California, Los Angeles