Vic Zhang

Building Cost Efficient Data Infrastructure and Storage Infrastructure

Role
Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Location
Bellevue, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer

    Snap Inc.

    May 2024 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

    Led data infrastructure team as Tech lead under ML platform, architecting lakehouse-based platform services to streamline Snap training data management and expand data accessibility• Led lakehouse team to launch ad-hoc query services via customized Apache Trino, integrating with Snap security infrastructure, Kafka, Prometheus, Looker, Vertex AI, and additional ecosystem• Launched in-place registration service, facilitating zero-copy registration of PB-scale parquet files (from BigQuery) in Apache Iceberg table format using Spark, enabling unified analytics• Improved Trino\'s Iceberg connector performance, reducing production ad-hoc query runtime by 5X

Education

  • Peking University

    College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

    2005 — 2009

  • University of California, Riverside

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Analytical Chemistry

    2009 — 2014

  • University of California, Riverside

    Master's degree, Computer Science

    2014 — 2015

Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Protein Chemistry
  • Matlab
  • Molecular Biology
  • Python
  • Java
  • Data Analysis
  • Database Systems
  • C++
  • Biochemistry
  • Cell Culture
  • Bioinformatics
  • Algorithms
  • Research

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