Zhemin Su
Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhemin Su is a Principal Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of experience building scalable, high-performance web and networked systems for large enterprises. He has driven backend architecture and cloud migrations at Walmart and now leads engineering efforts at Palo Alto Networks, combining strong algorithmic fundamentals with practical system design. His work spans Python/Django and Java services, real-time metrics pipelines (Kafka, Storm, Elasticsearch), and multi-tenant e‑commerce platforms that handle millions of events per hour. Zhemin has hands-on experience reducing production complexity—evidenced by a tiny-URL algorithm that cut email tracking and payload sizes significantly—and has led centralized observability and exception pipelines used across teams. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from San José State University and brings a blend of networking, backend, and full-stack sensibilities to security- and scale-focused problems. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering paired with a developer-first mindset—“Happy Coding!” is a succinct personal motto he actually uses.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at McMaster UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at San José State University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
encrypt3
encryption2
android2
team-project1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
linkzhui/Leetcode_practice
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
linkzhui/Library-Management-System
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 16 days
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