# Jesse Zhang

> Engineer at Snowflake

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessezhang

I want to learn as much as possible, and leave things a little nicer than when I found them.

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Greenplum Database is a distributed relational database optimized for analytic workloads at the petabyte scale. I've worked on

* Query execution
* Toolsmith (dev tooling / devops / engineering effectiveness)
* Query optimization (both the bottom-up Postgres planner and Pivotal's top-down ORCA optimizer)
* Upstream PostgreSQL work
* Merging new upstream Postgres (v12, v9.4, and v8.3) into Greenplum
* An omnibus "server" team that encompasses storage, catalog, transaction isolation, and MPP aspects of the database

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2021
I'm hacking all over the place in Cloud Foundry.

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States
CF Identity. I worked on User Account and Authentication (UAA), an OAuth 2 and SAML identity server; I also worked on Pivotal's proprietary multi-tenant identity-as-a-service offering

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States
Pivotal Ops Manager is the graphical user interface automating BOSH to provide a smooth user experience deploying PCF to data center. My expertise in BOSH came in handy on this stint.

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States
BOSH is the cloud orchestration / deployment system inspired by Borg. I worked on the BOSH director, stemcells, and BOSH agent (including the Go rewrite).

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California, United States
The "services" team was split out of the omnibus "backend" team and I was the inaugural pair. I bootstrapped the team that worked on the open source API (and proprietary implementations) for integration between Cloud Foundry and (primarily) database services

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California, United States
Cloud Foundry was spun out of VMware to form a new entity, Pivotal. I moved to San Francisco but continued to work on the omnibus "backend" team (we were still a small team and the division was not granular at all).

### Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Cloud Foundry: You bet your PaaS it's open

### PhD Candidate @ CUHK
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
randomized algorithms; approximation algorithms; combinatorics; computational complexity
Extremal combinatorics is lots of fun!

### Teaching Assistant @ CUHK
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
CSC2110 Discrete Mathematics
CSC4430 Data Communication and Computer Networks 
ERG2040C Probability Models and Application
CSCI5450 Randomness and Computation

### Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
internal ads project


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Fudan University

### PhD in Computer Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

### High School
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/essej
- Portfolio: http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/~zxzhang/index.xhtml

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Last updated: 2026-03-29