Zhenfeng Chen is a seasoned software engineer with eight years’ experience building high-scale backend and infrastructure systems at Meta and Microsoft. He specializes in ads measurement, attribution, and cloud storage control plane services, delivering projects that preserved measurement fidelity amid signal loss and enabled customer-driven storage account migration. His work has driven large efficiency gains—recovering hundreds of petabytes of capacity and enabling potential multi-million dollar COGS savings—while improving CPU and SQL performance across critical data pipelines. At Meta he added policy guardrails to prevent data misuse and mentored junior engineers; at Microsoft he architected REST APIs and orchestration schedulers for Azure storage. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from UIUC and blends deep systems thinking with hands-on profiling and optimization skills. Based in Bellevue, WA, he shares a public portfolio of projects that reflect a pragmatic focus on resilient, resource-efficient platforms.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Sun Yat-Sen University
Computer Software Engineering, Exchange, Computer Software Engineering, Exchange at Brigham Young University
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