Zihao Zhai
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZihao Zhai is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and customer-facing features across cloud platforms. Currently at Microsoft, he works on Azure global orchestration and deployment solutions, bringing prior backend and frontend experience from Amazon where he built shopping collaboration services, delivery features, and automation pipelines. He has a strong full‑stack background—Java, AWS, React/TypeScript—and practical data science roots from an MS in Applied Data Science and earlier research on entity resolution. Zihao has repeatedly owned end-to-end projects, from recommendation engines and data pipelines to CI/CD test automation, and has reduced latency and downstream calls through attention to efficient service design. Based in Redmond, he combines large-scale cloud engineering with product-facing UX work and a knack for turning research ideas into production systems. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain fluency: he moves between ML/data, backend reliability, and frontend shipping with equal comfort.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsMaster of Science (MS), Applied Data Science, Master of Science (MS), Applied Data Science at University of Southern CaliforniaChengdu Foreign Language School
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (115)
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
sql10
ai10
rust10
database10
deploying10
analytics10
keras-tensorflow10
intellij10
dbms10
clickhouse10
modular9
big-data9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zhaihao/scalaia
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:118 PRs, 7 pushes, 121 branches in 2 years 1 month
zhaihao/slickia
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:195 PRs, 18 pushes, 198 branches in 2 years 7 months
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