Yonghui Zhao
Software Engineer at 快手
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYonghui Zhao is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years' experience building large-scale search and infrastructure systems, currently engineering at Kuaishou in Beijing. He led Xiaomi’s search service team and architected the open-source Linden vertical search platform, demonstrating deep expertise in realtime indexing, distributed search, and infrastructure design. His background includes senior roles at Tencent and Microsoft where he worked on document discovery, realtime index pipelines and distributed clustering, reflecting a strong focus on backend systems and performance. An active contributor to open-source search projects (including bug fixes and performance improvements to Zoie/SenseiDB), he pays attention to low-level reliability issues like data provider timeouts and memory swapping. Comfortable spanning architecture, project management and hands-on coding, he also has academic roots with a master’s in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Engineering, Bachelor, Information Engineering at University of Electronic Science and TechnologyMaster, Electronic Engineering, Master, Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
English
Github Skills (10)
lucene10
javas10
indexing10
performance-optimization10
java10
multithreading9
algorithm9
algorithms9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
senseidb/zoie
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
realtime search/indexing system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yonghui primarily focused on improving the Zoie realtime search/indexing system's core functionalities. Their work involved fixing bugs related to data provider timeouts and memory swapping within the search index management. Furthermore, the user added functionality to control data provider flush intervals, improving control over data handling and synchronization. This indicates a focus on the system's internal workings and performance.
search-enginerealtimeindexingsearch
XiaoMi/linden
Jan 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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