Yingrong Zhao
Senior Software Engineer at honeycomb.io
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYingrong Zhao is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building back-end systems, databases, and DevOps tooling across startups and established companies including Honeycomb and Microsoft. She has hands-on expertise in Go-backed storage platforms—contributing database schema and credit-tracking features to the well-known Storj decentralized cloud project—and has improved observability and build processes in projects like Porter. Comfortable shipping production services and enhancing developer workflows, she blends pragmatic engineering with strong attention to telemetry, testing, and release automation. Based in the United States, Yingrong pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial instincts—she’s a developer who’s also plotting a future as a restaurant investor and even wonders aloud (on GitHub) about breakfast choices.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Developer Full Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer Full Stack Developer at DigitalCraftsComputer Networking Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Networking Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Bradfield School of Computer ScienceMaster's degree Sport Management, Master's degree Sport Management at Florida State UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) International Business/Trade/Commerce, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) International Business/Trade/Commerce at Wuhan Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
go10
cnpack10
sql10
database-design10
opentelemetry10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
devops9
distributed-file-system8
githubaction-workflow8
object-storage8
data-storage8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 216 commits, 152 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Yingrong primarily worked on implementing and modifying database-related features for the Storj platform. Their contributions include creating and altering database tables, specifically focusing on the "offers" table for a free credit program and incorporating user credit usage tracking. They also implemented methods to update and retrieve user credit information, demonstrating a focus on database design, and query development using Go.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
getporter/porter
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Porter enables you to package your application artifact, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as an installer that you can distribute, and install with a single command.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:307 reviews, 47 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yingrong Zhao primarily contributed to the Porter project by adding tracing instrumentation for the list command, including unit tests, and enhancing code readability. They also fixed configuration issues, such as the Telemetry struct tag, and introduced environment variables to set a log correlation ID. Furthermore, Zhao improved the build process by modifying the invocation image publication to the same repository as the bundle, improving code quality. Finally, they also contributed to build and release processes.
porterdevopsdeploymentinstallercnab
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