Summary
Zhiyue Zu is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, data-driven systems, currently at Google after leading backend efforts at GroundTruth. He has strong hands-on expertise in C++, Scala, Python and distributed systems—designing a 100k qps ad bidding service and a Spark-based ingestion framework that updates Aerospike and relational stores. Zhiyue has practical cloud and DevOps experience, migrating Spark workloads to EMR, replacing metrics stacks with CloudWatch, and Dockerizing complex test and development environments. With a Master’s in Security Informatics from Johns Hopkins and a background in computer science, he pairs performance engineering with operational rigor and a fast-learning mindset that thrives on production-scale challenges.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Johns Hopkins University
Chinese, English