Summary
Yan Zhang is a seasoned software engineer with nearly a decade of experience designing large-scale distributed systems and big data pipelines, currently building privacy-aware ML feature engineering infrastructure at Meta. He has a strong Microsoft pedigree—contributing to Bing Maps geospatial platform, Azure/Kubernetes tooling, and Docs authoring workflows—and a background in ad-tech and fraud prevention from Baidu and early Microsoft roles. Yan combines deep systems design with hands-on delivery, shipping tooling like a popular Markdown linting VS Code extension and production services across Elasticsearch and Azure Data Lake. A fast learner passionate about cutting-edge technology, he focuses on building scalable, policy-compliant data platforms that bridge research models and production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University