Yuchen Z
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Thumbtack
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYuchen Z is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience building and operating backend and distributed systems at Thumbtack. He has progressed from software engineering roles in product teams to leading reliability work, improving performance, security, and core infrastructure across the platform. Skilled in cloud-native operations, distributed systems, and backend engineering, he pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic observability and automation practices. His background includes full-stack development, data-driven feature work (Scala/Spark) and instrumentation (Jaeger/OpenTracing), giving him a rare blend of product and SRE perspective. Yuchen holds a MS in Computer Science from UIUC and a BS in CS & Mathematics from Purdue, and brings academic rigor to practical production problems. Outside of work he’s a designer/coder who enjoys RnB, soul music and travel, reflecting a creative, user-focused approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Mathematics at Purdue UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, Natural Sciences, High School Diploma, Natural Sciences at Xiamen No.1 High School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (2)
lucid3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
YucenZ/YucenZ
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
YucenZ/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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