Summary
Ye Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and AI platforms, currently shaping the Semantic Layer and Knowledge Graph at Indeed. He specializes in inverted-indexed data lakes and agentic BI solutions that turn text into actionable insights, and has a track record of moving rapid prototypes into scalable production systems. Previously he built Crystal, Indeed’s natural language insights platform, and contributed to data infrastructure for autonomous delivery at Amazon. Trained in ECE at UIUC and Texas A&M, he blends deep systems thinking with practical product focus, often finding elegant shortcuts that accelerate iteration across data, retrieval, and ML tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, wu, English