Yunfan Zhang
Research Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunfan Zhang is a research-focused software engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and production systems, currently a Research Associate at Columbia University and a PhD candidate in Computer Science. He has a strong background in systems and networking research, with practical industry exposure from internships at Cloudflare and Red Hat and early engineering work on Duke Electric Vehicles. Comfortable moving between prototype research and running code, he favors rough consensus and pragmatic implementation over theoretical purism. Based in New York, he pairs rigorous academic training from Columbia and Duke with hands-on engineering that ships real-world results. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex research questions into deployable solutions while staying engaged with community-driven, open-source practices.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (84)
python10
hat10
automation10
deep-learning10
in-app-purchase10
rest-api10
ssh10
network-configuration10
intel10
django10
ansible-automation-platform10
api10
sdk10
rest10
ansible10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YunfanZhang42/ansible
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications — automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
YunfanZhang42/ImageEdit
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:18 pushes in 2 months
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