Zihan Li
Staff Software Engineer, System Infrastructure at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolZihan Li is a Staff Software Engineer in LinkedIn’s System Infrastructure team with seven years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and developer tooling. He has a strong academic foundation from Rice University and Nankai University and a practical track record shipping microservices profiling, observability, and testing automation across Schlumberger and China’s SINGULATO auto company. At Schlumberger he integrated Istio and monitoring stacks to deliver distributed tracing and real-time analysis, and at ZHICHEAUTO he automated test generation to cut testers’ repetitive work by ~60%. Zihan contributes to Apache Gobblin on back-end reliability and performance, improving exception handling and timeouts in a widely used data integration framework. He combines systems-level C++/Java expertise with JavaScript and Python fluency and a knack for rapidly prototyping production-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as a quick learner, pragmatic engineer and collaborative team leader who thrives on reducing developer friction.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Hefei No.1 High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Rice UniversityBachelor's degree computer science, Bachelor's degree computer science at Nankai University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
exception-handling10
java10
data-engineering10
data-pipelines9
data-pipeline9
reactivex9
hadoop8
hive7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/gobblin
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
A distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication, organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data ecosystems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:572 reviews, 72 commits, 365 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zihan primarily contributed to the back-end of the Apache Gobblin data integration framework. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to exception handling and writer behavior, notably in the context of ReactiveX and IOExceptions. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve the performance and reliability of the system, including implementing timeout mechanisms. Their contributions also involved the modification of existing code, such as the hive metadata writer, and improvements to the codebase's overall functionality.
datadcosdata-streambig-data-integrationbatch-data
ZihanLi58/incubator-gobblin
Mar 2019 - Jun 2024
Gobblin is a distributed big data integration framework (ingestion, replication, compliance, retention) for batch and streaming systems. Gobblin features integrations with Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Salesforce, S3, MySQL, Google etc.
Contributions:321 pushes, 145 branches in 5 years 3 months
salesforceretentionbig-data-integrationcompliancekafka-connect
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