# Liangzhao Z.

> Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Inventor, Ph.D.

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

World-class system researcher and practitioner with a proven track record,  in the areas of big data engineering/management, ML application, MLOps, and distributed system/platform development. Deep focus on innovation with 50+ patents.

Areas of focus:
- Big data engineering
- Data quality management
- Machine learning application development
- Cloud computing, service composition and integration
- Functional domain modeling and functional programming 
- Software license management and optimization
- System performance tuning, specialized in big data pipeline and DBMS
- IP strategy and innovation

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ JPMorganChase
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer, Inventor @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023
Tech lead for Big Data Engineering group which is responsible for delivering/monitoring hundreds of Source-of-Truth dataset products to LinkedIn data ecosystem.
- Tech lead, Data quality management (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/towards-data-quality-management-at-linkedin)
- Teaching functional programming in Spark/Scala for  data pipeline development.
- Member of LinkedIn Data Patent Council

### Principal Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019
Chief architect of Siri data.
- Initiate, lead and implement Siri measurement and metric platform that provides key metrics for many daily development and executive decision making. 
- Initiate, lead and glow Siri data process toolkit from scratch. The toolkit is widely adopted as standard and community contributed (150 + committers ) big data processing tool for whole Siri org with 1400+ engineers.

### Chair @ IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Research Staff Member, Master Inventor, Cloud Computing PIC Chair @ IBM
Jan 2003 – Jan 2014 | New York
Chief architect and development lead for many enterprise products, including IBM’s WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Modeler and IBM Platform Symphony.

Master Inventor, responsible for leading the research innovation in area of business informatics,
big data analytic and cloud platform technology; Inventor of 50+ issued or pending patents.

Cloud Computing PIC Chair, IBM Research, lead and coordinate research community activities cross world-wide research labs.

Recipient of multiple IBM outstanding research accomplishments and IBM invention achievement awards.


## Education
### ph.D. in computer science
UNSW

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Sun Yat-sen University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zlzhao

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Last updated: 2026-04-12