Zhao Zhi-hui
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Intel
Beijing, China
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolZhao Zhi-hui is a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and industrializing mobile devices, currently driving mechanical and thermal/acoustic innovations at Intel in Beijing. He combines deep hands-on CAD and tolerance analysis skills (Pro/E, UG) with a practical eye for design-for-manufacture and cost reduction, routinely partnering with manufacturers to resolve production issues and root causes. Well-versed in plastics and metal material properties, he brings strength in test validation, data-driven problem solving, and cross-functional program delivery. Fluent in Chinese and English, he communicates complex engineering trade-offs clearly across teams and suppliers. Unusually for a mechanical engineer, he also contributes to high-profile open-source back-end projects related to data engines (including work touching Velox and Gluten), highlighting a broader systems-thinking mindset and familiarity with software-driven product ecosystems. This blend of mechanical craftsmanship and software-aware collaboration helps him translate product requirements into manufacturable, high-performance designs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Design, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Design at North China Science & Technology University
English
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
data-management10
query-parser10
substr10
velox10
query-engine10
cprogramming-language10
querying10
data-structure9
build-script9
bash9
autobuild9
data-structures9
arrow-js8
arrow-keys8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-gluten
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines' execution to native engines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 188 reviews, 29 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhao primarily contributed to upgrading the Velox component, a core dependency within the project. Their work involved updating Velox to various versions, including upgrades and incorporating newer features. These upgrades involved changes across multiple files, including build scripts, and core functionality such as VeloxPlanConverter. The user also made changes to function registration and configuration within Velox.
arrowclickhousesimdspark-sqlvectorization
facebookincubator/velox
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A composable and fully extensible C++ execution engine library for data management systems.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:296 reviews, 10 commits, 47 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zhao primarily focused on code style cleanup and refactoring within the Velox execution engine library. This involved modifying C++ code related to Substrait expression conversion, including changes to the parser and converter classes. Furthermore, the user added support for aggregate functions such as 'avg' and enhanced the handling of literals, indicating improvements to the library's functionality and compliance with Substrait specifications. This work contributes to the library's overall efficiency and its ability to handle a broader range of data processing tasks.
queryvectorizedcppdata-processingacceleration
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.