Yidong Zhang
Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group
City of North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYidong Zhang is a Senior Staff Engineer with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience applying optimization, machine learning, and backend engineering to large-scale supply chain and operations problems. Currently leading algorithmic work at Alibaba Group, he builds intelligent planning and forecasting systems and has driven optimization for scheduling, traffic control, and sales distribution. His background spans industry and research—from developing inventory and network-location models at BASF to roster and gate optimization at Sabre—and he holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering. A hands-on developer, he contributes to notable open-source projects (including enhancements to the popular JustAuth third-party login library) and maintains full-stack Java apps, demonstrating strength in API integration and secure auth flows. Based in New York but operating at global scale, he pairs rigorous quantitative modeling with production-grade software delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex mathematical models into pragmatic engineering features that measurably improve operations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, B.E., Mechanical Engineering at University of Science and Technology of ChinaPhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering at University at BuffaloHigh School attached to Harbin Normal UniversityNo. 113 Middle School
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database-migrations10
blogger10
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mybatis10
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spring-boot10
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Github contributions (5)
zhangyd-c/springboot-learning
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
:taxi: spring boot学习案例，方便spring boot 初学者快速掌握相关知识
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Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 82 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yidong primarily focused on updating and adapting `Applaction.java` files within multiple Spring Boot sub-projects (schedule, mybatis, freemarker) indicating a role in configuring and maintaining the core application structure. They adjusted packages in various sub-projects. The user also modified `ErrorPageController.java` and `PoiUtil.java`, suggesting work on error handling and utilizing POI libraries for document manipulation. The user showed additional work on freemarker templates.
spring-boottaximultidatasourcesslwebsockets
justauth/JustAuth
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
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Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 574 commits, 65 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Yidong's commits primarily focused on the development of a third-party login library. They implemented URL building utilities and request handling logic, including the creation of request classes for various social login providers like Weibo and Gitee. Their contributions involved the creation of specific classes for each platform, suggesting a focus on server-side integration and API interaction. The user also made changes to the config classes for different platforms to support explicit parameter passing and added tests to the project.
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