Zhixin Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolZhixin Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and data platforms for high-scale products at AWS, PayPal, Viant, and The Trade Desk. He helped launch AWS CodeArtifact—designing metadata replication and GDPR-safe deletion workflows—and has driven reliability and release automation at Venmo using Go, Python, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions. At Viant he tuned Aerospike-backed bidder stores and Kafka pipelines to cut costs and withstand peak bidding load, demonstrating both low-level performance tuning and platform-level observability. Passionate about mentoring, SRE practices, and applying AI for automation, he combines deep systems engineering with pragmatic product-focused delivery. Based in the Bay Area, he favors hands-on optimizations (including custom C client tweaks) that yield measurable improvements in throughput and developer velocity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaComputer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Shenyang Normal University
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Github contributions (5)
zhixinzhang/LeetCode
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Algo
Contributions:64 commits, 192 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
zhixinzhang/LJBible
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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