# Yaoming Zhan

> Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Distributed Systems, Database/Storage Infrastructure

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

[Written by AI]:

At LinkedIn, I successfully integrated TiDB as a cutting-edge NewSQL database, enhancing LinkedIn's data infrastructure capabilities. Our collective efforts in overhauling Espresso's transport layer with HTTP/2 not only achieved a tenfold scalability boost but also significantly reduced latencies and system strain, showcasing our commitment to continuous improvement and technological excellence.

My expertise lies in crafting distributed systems and optimizing system performance. These skills were instrumental in the 3x enhancement of Netty's HTTP/2 performance and in fortifying Espresso's resilience, ensuring over 80% improved availability during critical incidents without direct intervention.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure @ LinkedIn
Jan 2020 – Present | 旧金山湾区
Bootstrapped a new distributed SQL database infrastructure (TiDB) from scratch at LinkedIn and scaled from 0 to millions of QPS and PBs of storage, powering critical platform use cases. Contributed to open-source to improve TiDB's extensibility and operability.

Improved LinkedIn's distributed document database's (Espresso) scalability by 10x, reduced long-tail latency by 75% by rewriting connection protocol between load balancers/routers and storages.

Made Espresso more resilient, improved availability by xx% during single load balancer/routing node failures. Built fault-injection framework leveraged by multiple teams.

### Engineering Intern @ Cisco ThousandEyes
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Scaled Analytics data infrastructure with lambda architecture to ingest TBs of daily real-time data and billions of messages.

### Software Engineer Intern @ EviCore by Evernorth
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Owned 3 full-stack and RESTful API software projects from design to development. 
Developed internal software tools to increase engineering/operational productivity.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Brandeis University

### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC Irvine

### High School Diploma
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yzhan1
- GitHub: https://github.com/yzhan1

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Last updated: 2026-04-12