Zhi Zhou
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Zhou is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience applying computer vision, machine learning, and high-performance C/C++ engineering to problems in bioinformatics, biometrics, and computational biology. He combines a strong academic foundation (Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue) with hands-on production work at Microsoft and research-focused roles at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. His background spans image analysis, pattern recognition, big data visualization, and scalable systems, and he has a proven track record of research experiments and publications that inform practical product features. At DL2Tech he designed standards-based iris quality tooling that bridged research and deployable biometric systems—an example of his ability to turn advanced algorithms into robust, production-ready components. Colleagues describe him as a hybrid researcher-engineer who thrives at the intersection of rigorous science and industrial software delivery.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Beijing University of Technology
Github Skills (21)
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
swagger10
api10
sdk10
rest10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
azure10
csharp10
openapi10
javascript9
microsoft-azure9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zhizhoualan/azure-ai-vision
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
Scenario-based samples for Azure AI Vision services
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
xxiao23/snowflake
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Snowflake
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
sqlsnowflakedatabase
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