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Nick Zhou

San Jose,CA

Summary

  • 5 Years of experience for being Software Engineer, have been working on large-scaled distributed systems.
  • Fintech and Crypto industry experience in working on high-quality and large-scaled Crypto trading platform as well as associated eco-systems, such as ledger, settlement, wallet.
  • Ads industry experience in working on micro-services based large-scaled and low-latency distributed systems for ads real-time bidding and serving platform.
  • LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/nick-zhou-robinhood

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer, Crypto Trading and Foundations

Robinhood
10.2021 - Current
  • Drove coin listing workstream across multiple Eng teams; Reduced Eng effort from two weeks to three days for each list.
  • Led Crypto trade user journey workstream by reducing e2e error rates, improving trading conversion rates.
  • Owned Robinhood Crypto tax reporting pipeline and migrated vendors to cut cost as well as build Robinhood unified tax reporting; Worked on several crypto products tax integration, also streamlined process to improve efficiency across stakeholders.
  • Led Crypto trading system loadtest by improving pipeline, tackling performance issues; Also Owned monthly infra/system report to provide better viz/obs of system health.
  • Actively contributed to team build and Eng excellence, such as building project rollout/post-launch checklist, domain ownership mapping and maintain, on-call ticket system.

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Amobee(Nexxen)
07.2018 - 10.2021
  • Owned couple of critical services and components in system, including RTB webservers, data distribution streaming pipeline, etc;
  • Led cross-team work to refactor and tune webservers infra(HAProxy, Tomcat), reducing 20% average bidding latency and 20% P99 tail latency across platform.
  • Built Kafka-based data streaming pipeline to replace RPC-based pipeline, reducing latency of data synchronization by 90%.
  • Led team to integrate more than eight ad-exchanges with better streamline; Built and trained new integration team.
  • Redesigned and implemented in-memory and persistent data storage for Distro service by leveraging partition mechanism, reducing initial-loading time by 80% and incremental-loading time by 20%.
  • Designed and developed new features for ads bidding, including Geo Targeting, Audio Channel Integration, etc.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA
05.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an City, China
06.2016

Skills

  • Java, Python, Golang
  • AWS, K8S
  • On Premise/Private DCs
  • Microservices
  • GRPC, Consul
  • HAproxy, Nginx, Tomcat
  • Kafka, ZooKeeper
  • RocksDB, Postgres(PGbouncer)
  • Redis, Memcached
  • Multi-Threading
  • Service Sharding
  • Airflow, Batch-processing
  • Django
  • JVM Tuning
  • Digital Advertising
  • Crypto Eco-systems(trading)
  • Team Working

Timeline

Software Engineer, Crypto Trading and Foundations

Robinhood
10.2021 - Current

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Amobee(Nexxen)
07.2018 - 10.2021

Master of Science - Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Xi'an Jiaotong University

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