Zhidong Yang
Cloud infrastructure | Data engineering | Distributed Systems
- Role
- Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zhidong Yang
Software engineer at ACM2 under Azure Capacity Infrastructure Service.
Experience
Software Engineer
Oct 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Evolving multi-cloud and global Azure server provisioning service through enhancing metadata consistency, improving data accuracy and supporting new technology piloting; improving Azure cluster buildout efficiency by early detection of policy incompliance, leading to on-time capacity delivery under strict SLA- Spearheaded cross-team effort in successful piloting and development of server-as-a-fault-domain initiative, achieving $87M/month reduction in COGS through improved fault isolation and resource optimization- Designed and implemented seamless migration of production data records from SQL Server to Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) with efficient indexing strategy, resulting in containerization of data management while enhancing query capabilities in analysis- Designed, analyzed, tested and implemented data ingestion throughput improvement by 10x in C#, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of capturing production data snapshots- Designed and built the distributed lock in C# for Azure cluster buildout artifacts, ensuring metadata consistency across monthly server provisioning- Conducted large-scale metadata audits with T-SQL and Python, identifying and resolving inconsistencies of server metadata, preventing decommissioning errors and maintaining data integrity.
Education
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Certificate, Global Trade and Weapons of Mass Destruction
2014 — 2014
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Master of Arts (M.A.), International Economics; Western Hemisphere Studies
2014 — 2017
Saint Martin's University
Certificate of Computer Science, Cloud Application Development
Towson University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Political Science (Major); International Studies (Minor)
2010 — 2013
Skills
- Student Development
- Research
- Community Outreach
- Event Planning
- Editing
- Qualitative Research
- Student Affairs
- Public Speaking
- Social Networking
- Teaching
- Statistics
- Tutoring
- Microsoft Office
- Student Leadership
- Social Media
- Higher Education
- Powerpoint
- Fundraising
- Nonprofits
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