Zizhong Zhang
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Salient
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZizhong Zhang is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems for large internet companies and startups. He has driven traffic infrastructure and Apache Traffic Server work at LinkedIn, progressed to staff engineering roles at Opaque Systems and HeyGen, and now leads infrastructure at Salient. An active Apache Traffic Server committer since 2018, he blends deep open-source protocol expertise with hands-on operational rigor. Zizhong is comfortable across the stack—networking, proxies, and distributed systems—and has a track record of turning research-grade components into scalable, maintainable services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance performance and reliability at scale. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northeast Normal University and brings a consistent focus on production robustness that’s often underappreciated in infrastructure leaders.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Northeast Normal University
Github Skills (101)
pii10
reverse-proxy10
proxy10
extensible10
rest-api10
traffic10
proxy-protocol10
api10
rest10
data-transfer10
scalable10
httpd10
application-framework10
json10
load-balancing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zizhong/trafficserver
Jul 2015 - Sep 2020
Mirror of Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:206 pushes, 54 branches, 9 comments in 5 years 2 months
javahttpdapachetraffic
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