Yang Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYang Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with a four-year track record of building reliable systems across Kong, Amazon (Alexa & Devices), and Apple, grounded in a Software Engineering BS from Beijing Institute of Technology and an MS in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon. He blends curiosity and disciplined focus to tackle distributed systems and platform problems, moving from QA and automation roles into senior engineering at Kong. Known for being a continual learner and listener, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration to deliver production-grade solutions. Outside of work he balances technical rigor with creative pursuits—cooking and piano—which inform his methodical yet creative approach to engineering.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of TechnologyMaster, Information Systems Management, Master, Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (37)
api-management10
kubernetes10
docker10
artificial-intelligence10
reverse-proxy10
load-balancing10
kong-plugin10
luajit10
monkey10
consul10
api10
gateway10
api-gateway10
ai10
golang10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mariocandela/kong
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway
Contributions:125 commits in 10 months
api-gatewaygolangapinative-apidocker
Kong/kong-pongo
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Tooling to run plugin tests with Kong and Kong Enterprise
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
kong-pluginkong-enterprisetestingkongtooling
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