# Ricky Zhou

> Software Engineer at Bytedance

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ ByteDance
Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Associate Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
SayonaraDB Query Processing Team

### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Working to create an in-memory HTAP system with a bottom up query execution model coupled with workload prediction capabilities. Currently creating logical and physical operators for the system optimizer.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Database Management Systems (15-445). Developed parts of the course execution engine and buffer pool manager.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Created a tool to diagnosis out of memory issues for SayanaraDB engine.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Working on the Azure Commerce and Ecosystems team.  Built a testing framework that ensured correctness of various price transform implementations for pricing engine. Currently working on a pricing formula assembly framework.

### Software Engineer Intern @ TravelWits
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Used Google Maps API to annotate on travel map the locations of available hotels in designated cities. Also developed a usage anomaly detector that raised alarms given unusual website activity by running analytics on MySQL Database.

### Project Specialist @ Transatlantic North America, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
Collected vehicle data for West Virginian roads using categorization interface. Helped create software that auto categorize vehicles based on dimensional analysis. Participated in creation of software that determined shortest route between two destinations based on traffic patterns.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Liberal Arts and Science Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ricky-zhou15

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Last updated: 2026-03-29