Zhengdai Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZhengdai Hu is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with a decade of experience building robust, security-minded distributed systems and data-driven tools. He combines deep backend expertise—evident from significant contributions and refactors to Apache Storm’s core metrics and reliability—with practical fuzzing and security work on ZetaSQL that uncovered DoS vulnerabilities. A UI-capable engineer as well, he has modernized internal trader dashboards and built monitoring frameworks that improved observability at scale. Trained at UIUC and steeped in research, he has applied machine learning and data analysis to problems from certificate auditing to text extraction. Outside of code, he biked coast-to-coast to support cancer research, reflecting a motivation to apply technology for the greater good.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
javas10
distributed-systems10
apache-storm10
back-end-development10
java10
metric10
concurrency9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/storm
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Apache Storm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 23 PRs, 180 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhengdai primarily contributed to the Apache Storm project by refactoring and improving the system's core components. Their work included fixing bugs related to the initialization of the Supervisor and the `filterChangingBlobsFor()` method. They also addressed issues in the `Slot` class, the `AsyncLocalizer` class, and the `LogCleaner` class, and they updated the metrics for Nimbus and LogViewer. Their efforts focused on ensuring proper functionality, code maintainability, and the overall reliability of the distributed streaming system.
apachebig-datastormjavaapache-storm
zd-project/recipes
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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