Zehua Zhao is a bilingual pre- and post-sales engineer with seven years of experience bridging technical delivery and customer success, currently based in Shanghai. With a background in software engineering (MS and BS from Oakland University) he pairs hands-on back-end development experience—contributing to the RisingWave open-source stream processing project around protobufs, plan nodes, and catalog synchronization—with customer-facing expertise in mobile device management (Jamf-certified). He has driven technical partnerships and training, translating complex MDM requirements into deployable solutions and long-term integrator agreements. Prior roles in biometrics sales and hardware testing honed his ability to troubleshoot cross-disciplinary issues and manage international customer workflows. Known for translating deep technical changes into operational improvements, he blends engineering rigor with a strong focus on client adoption and satisfaction.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineer & Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineer & Information Technology at Oakland University
The event stream processing platform for developers. Unified experience for real-time data ingestion, stream processing, and low-latency serving. Best-in-class performance and cost-efficiency. Supports SQL and Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:98 reviews, 44 commits, 39 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zehua primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and modifying code related to the database and stream processing platform. They made changes to the protobuf definitions and utilized `oneof` in streaming `PlanNode`. Code changes also involved adjustments to data chunk handling, date/time array implementations, and adjustments to catalog management to synchronize the catalog.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year
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