Zhuo Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhuo Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale, real-time computing and storage systems for ML and payments platforms. Currently at Stripe, he focuses on next-generation cost platforms and previously led design and implementation of horizontally scalable storage and compute engines at Ant Group to power ML workloads. His background spans high-throughput indexing and crawling at Google, autonomous systems at Pony.ai, and early work on ad and search infrastructure, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems, data pipelines, and performance engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform robustness in prominent projects like OpenCV, Doxygen, and the mobile neural inference framework ncnn, showing attention to build compatibility and low-level bug fixes. Based in San Jose, he combines production-grade engineering with an academic foundation from Tsinghua and RWTH Aachen, and often surfaces subtle platform issues—like QNX and Windows build fixes—that keep complex systems reliable. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic, scalable solutions and for quietly improving tooling and builds that many teams depend on.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Liaoning Experimental High SchoolMaster, Media Informatics, Master, Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
opencv10
c-language10
build-system10
inference10
cmake10
deep-learning10
cplus10
doxygen10
computer-vision10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing9
system-programming9
develop9
windows9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Tencent/ncnn
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 64 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zhuo primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the ncnn framework. They addressed issues related to compatibility with older versions of OpenCV, corrected errors in the darknet2ncnn conversion tool, and fixed potential integer overflows in the code. The user also worked on adding support for Open Harmony OS and fixing various warnings and typos throughout the codebase.
simdncnnvulkaniostensorflow
opencv/opencv
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Open Source Computer Vision Library
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Zhuo primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor improvements within the OpenCV library. Their work included addressing a missing return type in a core function, correcting a typo in a comment related to parallel processing, refining function signatures, and fixing QNX build issues. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining code quality, platform compatibility, and addressing specific build problems.
pythonvisiondeep-learningc-plus-pluscomputer-vision
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