# Rick Zhang

> Infra @ Roblox

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

UC Berkeley alum (2022) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I am interested in infrastructure, site reliability, and software and passionate about building and scaling companies through infrastructure.

Outside of work, I love music and concerts(R&B, Hip-Hop), traveling, playing sports with friends, video games, and talking with people.

Please feel free to connect and reach out if you would like to chat!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Senior Advisor @ Data Science Society at Berkeley
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States

### Director of Consulting @ Data Science Society at Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Led project managers in client acquisition and project engagements, producing five unique formal client deliverables for Whipstitch, Sea Warden, Fansure, and Open Scout

### Project Manager @ Data Science Society at Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | University of California, Berkeley
- Served as technical project manager to produce project vision/roadmap and drive product development towards customer's requirements as well as lead client-facing meetings and deliverables as customer proxy
- Hosted professional networking events and workshops to educate and enhance professionalism in Data Science Society

### Data Science Consultant @ Data Science Society at Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | University of California, Berkeley
- Worked with team of consultants to provide Data Science and Machine Learning solutions for contracted client company, Compliance.ai

### Software Engineering Intern @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California, United States
- Designed and constructed automated operating system image pipeline to streamline provisioning using Hashicorp Packer and Github Actions
- Developed and performed large-scale deployments of hardware monitoring services using Chef

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Designed and implemented a REST API to receive, store, and alarm on emergency event call data from third party providers
- Built and deployed E2E tested API using AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Kinesis and SNS and CloudWatch monitoring

### Site Reliability Engineering Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed and deployed an Artifactory cleanup service to prune old unused artifacts on k8 clusters using Bazel
- Configured and deployed Burrow in bootstrapped k8 clusters for Kafka monitoring

### Software Engineering Intern @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo, California, United States
- Deployed and configured Netdata instances on Hashicorp Nomad for real-time hardware metric monitoring using Chef
- Aggregated distributed Prometheus instance data using Promxy and established hardware alerting rules with Alertmanager

### Data Science Consultant @ Simmer (YC W19)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Managed team of 8 consultants in developing an automated dish protein labeling application
- Analyzed user retention behavior by developing user performance metrics and modeling Mixpanel application data to predict churn

### Data Science Consultant @ SoFi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Managed team of 7 consultants in creating data science and machine learning solutions to explore member behavior
- Worked with Sofi Data Science team to define metrics to gauge user trend scores and produced machine learning models to determine user retention and reduce customer churn

### Software Engineering Intern @ Toyota Connected North America
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Plano, Texas
- Developed cloud and operations services for Toyota Connected, the software and data driven subsidiary of Toyota
- Built and deployed Gitlab KPI metrics dashboard service to maximize developing efficiency using Smashing.io and AWS
- Constructed system hardened and tuned “golden” base docker images for Toyota Connected pipelines worldwide

### Data Science Consultant @ Compliance.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | University of California, Berkeley
- Developed Service-Connector for client Compliance.ai; utilized REST API to consolidate client data with AWS Lambda

### IT/Software Development Intern @ State Farm ®
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Engineered policy and automation tools for State Farm agents’ products in Agile environment with JavaScript and Gherkin
- Headed creation and integration of Gitlab Exporter Project using Gitlab API & Grafana for improved developer workflow

### Research Assistant @ Human Intelligence and Language Technologies Lab (HiLT) at University of North Texas
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Denton, TX
- Assisted in research in the Companion Bots project, utilizing Natural Language Understanding and Machine Learning skills.
- Advanced to Texas State Science and Engineering Fair State Finalist; placed 3rd in category at Regional Science fair with Dialogue Act Prediction Project

### Lab Mentor @ iCode Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 4577 Ohio Dr Frisco TX 75035
- Assisted elementary to high school students in learning computer technologies.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma in Texas Academy of Math and Science
University of North Texas

### Liberty High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rick-zhang
- Website: https://github.com/wsxdrorange

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Last updated: 2026-04-05