Zizhao Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Zilliz
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolZizhao Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Shanghai with nine years of experience specializing in frontend development and full-stack work using Vue.js, Node.js, AWS, CSS, and JavaScript. At Zilliz he leads front-end development for a cloud SaaS product, maintains open-source projects like Attu and the Milvus Node SDK, and builds internal monitoring tools. He has hands-on experience bridging UI and backend—fixing Docker builds, cron jobs, and adding type support like VARCHAR in the Attu GUI for the Milvus vector database. His open-source contributions include clarifying proto/gRPC interfaces in the high-profile Milvus project, improving API documentation and maintainability. Earlier roles at PatSnap and startups gave him broad exposure to server-side Node.js, S3/Lambda deployments, and data-visualization work with D3. Trained originally in industrial design and transitioned from QA to engineering, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to building maintainable front-end systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design at Shanghai Dianji University
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Github Skills (25)
algorithms10
javascript10
stack10
typescript10
vector-database10
data-structure10
proto10
go10
linked-list10
typescript-types10
data-structures10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zilliztech/attu
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Web UI for Milvus Vector Database
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 releases, 93 reviews, 96 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Zizhao primarily contributed to the development of the Attu web UI for the Milvus vector database. Their work focused on both the frontend and backend, including fixing Docker build issues, comment formatting, and fixing bugs in the cron job functionality within the backend. They also made changes to frontend components, added a version display in the menu and supported the use of the VARCHAR data type and related features.
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milvus-io/milvus
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Zizhao primarily contributed to improving the comments and documentation within the Milvus codebase, specifically focusing on the internal proto files related to collection management and index creation. Their work involved clarifying the purpose and usage of various request and response messages within the gRPC interface, and adding context regarding how the defined messages are used within the Milvus ecosystem. These comment updates enhance the understanding of the API design and improve the overall maintainability of the project.
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