Summary
Yun Zhang is a Senior Engineering Manager with nine years of experience building large-scale backend services, cloud platforms, and ML-driven products, currently raising the observability bar at Uber. He has led teams delivering high-performance logging, distributed tracing, and reliability data platforms, and previously ran AI+HI content moderation and personalized news recommendation efforts at Microsoft. Yun blends hands-on systems expertise—from HPC and Azure hybrid solutions to production ML infrastructure—with people leadership that scales engineering velocity. His work spans both product-facing personalization and deep infrastructure concerns, giving him a rare cross-functional perspective on reliability, performance, and model-driven features. Based in Bellevue, he pairs top-tier academic training (SJTU, top 3%) with a pragmatic “keep on keeping on” ethos that surfaces in steady delivery under complex constraints.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering, Awarded as Exceptional Student (top 3%), Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering, Awarded as Exceptional Student (top 3%) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University