Yazhuo Zhang
Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYazhuo Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher based in Zurich with 11 years of experience focused on storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-center applications. He combines rigorous academic training (PhD in Systems Science and Theory from Emory) with industry collaborations at Twitter and a performance engineering internship at Akamai to bridge theory and production. His work centers on creating meaningful abstractions for complex distributed system behavior and applying data-driven optimization to improve large-scale efficiency. Comfortable moving between measurement, modeling, and systems design, he targets practical improvements that scale across cloud deployments. At ETH Zürich he continues to translate research insights into actionable system-level optimizations, bringing both experimental rigor and deployment-minded engineering to performance challenges. He often emphasizes interpretable abstractions as a path to faster, more predictable system improvements—an approach that helps tame complexity beyond raw measurement alone.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Science and Theory, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Science and Theory at Emory UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at South China University of Technology
Github Skills (29)
hexo9
javascript8
nodejs8
caching7
typescript7
memcached7
lru7
segment7
fifo7
ttl7
data-structure6
alibaba5
static-site-generator5
redis5
memory-allocation4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yazhuo/starter-academic
May 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
yazhuo/notes
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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