Zuozhi Wang
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZuozhi Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in query optimization, incremental and streaming query processing, distributed systems, and observability. With a PhD in database systems from UC Irvine, he blends rigorous research—10+ publications and major contributions to Apache Texera—with hands-on production impact, including the Tempura optimizer deployed in Alibaba’s MaxCompute and contributions to Apache Calcite. At Observe (now part of Snowflake) he led Monitoring/Alerting and log search infrastructure, improving reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency at scale. Zuozhi favors clean architecture and high-quality code, and his background spans compiler and runtime design, real-time collaborative frontends, and low-latency monitoring systems. Notably, he has shipped research prototypes to production and earned industry recognition like Alibaba’s Innovative Research Award, reflecting a rare mix of academic depth and product-oriented engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (78)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Texera/texera
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Collaborative Machine-Learning-Centric Data Analytics Using Workflows
Contributions:2 releases, 586 reviews, 2338 commits in 6 years 11 months
nlpdata-analyticsanalyticsdeclarative-uidata-science
UCI-Chenli-teaching/spring19-cs221-project
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Project Template for CS221 Spring 2019
Contributions:102 PRs, 99 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
springtemplate
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