Kang Zhang
Bellevue,WA
Summary
Experienced software engineer in developing scalable and complex software. Works well under pressure and consistently meets deadlines and targets while delivering high quality work.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Meta
Bellevue, WA
02.2024 - Current
- Led integration of DISCO video streaming into Link stack, improving performance and maintainability. Major performance gains: 90% reduction in frame discontinuity; 20–50% improvement in misprojections; 40% improvement in reprojections; Zero-copy streaming, reducing link latency by up to 10ms
- Root caused and resolved critical crashes and stability issues, earning multiple peer recognitions.
- Enabled Airlink and OpenXR features (Passthrough, Scene Anchors) on DISCO, expanding product capabilities.
- Before we have little automation tests. I designed and implemented end-to-end automation tests, increasing pass rate from 50% to 90%+ and blocking 90+ bad diffs/month. This increased our software stability to a brand-new stage.
Senior Software Engineer II
Cruise LLC
Seattle, WA
06.2022 - Current
- Led development of cloud services that are responsible for Autonomous Vehicle Safety with 99.99% availability.
- Designed and implemented cloud services that utilizes ML to fasten the map data labeling process which cut the cost for labels by 13%.
- Designed large scale data pipeline to ensure the map data is correct.
Senior Software Engineer
Alibaba Inc.
03.2020 - 06.2022
- Led design and development of next generation cloud monitor microservices that runs in Alibaba Cloud that shows status and utilization of other services in Alibaba Cloud which serves around 100k QPS and managed to achieve over 99.99 SLA.
- Design and develop data processing pipelines that are processing billions of cloud monitor data reliably using pubsubs / k8s / NoSQL etc.
- Led team involving 7 people to design and develop of new systems to constantly monitor anomaly in cloud services and send alerts which involves cross-team work with machine learning teams.
Senior Software Engineer
JD.com
03.2019 - 03.2020
- Developed and deployed highly reliable localization algorithms that can accurately localize self-driving cars using LIDAR and HD maps in real-time and with limited computing resources.
- Developed deep learning models that helps to identify and classify small objects in bird-eye-view LIDAR images.
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
07.2016 - 03.2019
- Designed and developed scalable applications for efficiently deliver StreetView images.
- Built and maintained offline data processing pipelines that enhances quality of Google Maps data.
Education
Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA06-2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Science And Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui, China06-2010
Skills
- C, Java, Typescript, python
- Large-Scale Distributed System Development
Awards
2016: Distinguished Dissertation Awards
2015: Dissertation Year Fellowship in LSU
2014: The Graduate Student Travel Awards
Timeline
Software Engineer
Meta
02.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer II
Cruise LLC
06.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Alibaba Inc.
03.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Software Engineer
JD.com
03.2019 - 03.2020
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
07.2016 - 03.2019
Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Science And Technology of China