# Hongyi Zhang

> Software Engineer at Stripe

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hongyi

UCLA CS '19. Engineering and product person. Fan of distributed systems, fancy programming languages and NLP. Always betting on the web.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
On the Credit Intelligence team, tackling Stripe's credit exposure and losses 💸

### Software Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco
Currently working on the Adobe Experience Platform Experience Decisioning team, where I help to build highly performant and scalable reactive microservices in Scala using Akka, Kafka and Cassandra.

### Senior Staff @ Daily Bruin
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Previous assistant online editor for the Daily Bruin & PM/Dev for Bruinwalk.com, a popular professor and course review service for the UCLA community with an average of 5k unique visitors per day. Worked on rolling out Docker + Rancher for deployment & CI/CD. Designed, developed and managed new open source tools for the newsroom (github.com/dailybruin). Work currently sponsored by the Internet Research Initiative grant at UCLA.

### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington
Worked on improving the Windows BitLocker management and recovery experience. Drove spec discussions on key rotation and management features with teams across Windows and Azure, sought out feedback from key customers and stakeholders, and helped with getting the design and engineering spec approved. Features announced as part of 2019 Windows 10 update. (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Enterprise-Mobility-Security/Microsoft-expands-BitLocker-management-capabilities-for-the/ba-p/544329)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Adobe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
In the summer, I developed and optimized a machine learning pipeline to improve image search experiences. This utilized cutting edge NLP research to achieve near realtime clustering performance on tags data, and provided better guidance in the search process. As a part time intern, I worked on designing and building production micro-services in Scala, Akka-Http and Lagom employing the event-sourcing model for the cloud platform.

### SHINE Intern @ Singtel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
With Singtel Group Enterprise, Engineering and Innovation. Built and deployed a data ingestion and analytics workflow using Hadoop and Spark for Singtel NCS. Developed a web application in Python as a proof of concept for security research. Literature review on emerging technologies and research in the realm of Big Data security.

### Intern @ Tinkertanker
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Developed a Chrome extension for online shopping service. Built mobile applications for event companies. Taught programming classes to kids between 5 to 75 years old. Played with power tools, and macgyvered a lock for the office door.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hongyi-zhang-81a49838

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Last updated: 2026-03-22