Zhong Dai
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZhong Dai is a seasoned data engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable data pipelines and delivering production ML models on Google Cloud Platform for Woolworths’ rewards program. He combines a strong enterprise background in Data Warehouse, BI and financial software with hands-on skills in Python, Scala, Go, Apache Spark/Hadoop, Kubernetes and CI/CD. Zhong works closely with top-tier data science teams to operationalize models and has practical experience implementing Open Source pipeline components and ML workflows. His open-source contributions include core improvements to the widely used cookiecutter project, reflecting attention to reliable file generation and test-driven fixes. Trained in software engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology, he brings a pragmatic mix of advanced analytics, functional programming practices and production-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
filesystem10
cookiecutter10
python10
fileio10
file-manipulation10
pytest9
testing9
documentation8
concatenation6
pandas6
amazon-iam6
oracle6
amazon-web-services6
dataframe6
terraform6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cookiecutter/cookiecutter
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhong primarily contributed to the core functionality of the cookiecutter project, focusing on improving the file generation process. Their work includes adding checks for the `overwrite_if_exists` flag, adding and refining function documentation and fixing an issue related to copy only directories with the override flag. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the project's flexibility and reliability in handling file operations. The user interacted with key files like `cookiecutter/generate.py` and tests in the tests folder.
cliproject-templatespythoncommand-line-utilitydeveloper-tools
simple-dev-tools/gfluent
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
A fluent-style Google Cloud Client
Contributions:9 releases, 33 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 9 months
gcpappenginegooglegoogle-cloud-platformgoogle-style
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