Zhang Zhang
Senior Member Of Technical Staff, Cloud System Performance Engineer at AMD
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhang Zhang is a Senior Member of Technical Staff and cloud system performance engineer with nine years of industry experience focused on high-performance C++, Java, and Python systems for ML, HPC, and Big Data. Based in Hillsboro, OR, he profiles and tunes workloads across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) to squeeze scalability and efficiency from x86 multi‑core and manycore processors. His background includes long tenure at Intel where he optimized open-source frameworks like Spark and XGBoost for CPU instances and led FPGA software architecture and OPAE efforts. Zhang pairs deep performance modeling and low-level optimization skills with practical production experience—translating academic research (a PhD-era UPC runtime and PGAS performance model) into robust enterprise solutions. He has a track record of enabling math and data-analytics libraries (MKL, DAAL) to work seamlessly with modern data stacks and cloud deployments. Colleagues rely on him for measurable performance wins across cloud-native ML and Big Data workloads.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (44)
gbm10
portable10
xgboost10
spark10
dataflow10
python10
machine-learning10
distributed-systems10
gradient-boosting10
gradient10
boosting10
scala10
java10
dask10
scalable10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhangzhang10/dmlc-xgboost
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Flink and DataFlow
Contributions:42 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 9 months
pythonflinkfeature-storedataflowgbm
zhangzhang10/zhangzhang10.github.io
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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