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
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
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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