Yaxiong Zhao
Member Of Technical Staff at Altera.al
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYaxiong Zhao is a seasoned Member of Technical Staff based in Menlo Park with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend systems. He focuses on distributed computation and test automation, contributing robust unit tests and tooling to notable open-source projects like the Go-based Glow map-reduce system. Known as a lifelong tinkerer, he blends deep hands-on engineering with a data+compute mindset to turn complex problems into maintainable code. He brings particular strength in low-level utilities—byte handling, network utilities, and concurrency primitives—that quietly improve system reliability at scale.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
test-framework10
go10
testing10
network-programming9
distributed-systems9
concurrency8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chrislusf/glow
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Glow is an easy-to-use distributed computation system written in Go, similar to Hadoop Map Reduce, Spark, Flink, Storm, etc. I am also working on another similar pure Go system, https://github.com/chrislusf/gleam , which is more flexible and more performant.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:45 commits, 48 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yaxiong primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Glow distributed computation system. They added numerous unit tests for core utility functions, demonstrating a focus on code quality and reliability. Their work included testing functionalities related to byte manipulation, network utilities, channel operations, and data encoding/decoding. Furthermore, the user improved the testing framework by adding test scripts and refactoring existing tests.
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justicezyx/puzzles
May 2013 - Apr 2020
Programming puzzles, currently most are from interviews
Contributions:59 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
puzzlesjavascriptprogramming-puzzles
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