# Yu Zhang

> Software Engineer at Snowflake

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ SmartNews, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Ads Delivery & Targeting
   - Standard (Age/Gender/Location/etc) targeting for SmartNews Ads
   - Custom Audience redesign
   - Infrastructure cost reduction (Reduced ads infra cost by ~40% in 1 year)
   - Improve service quality and observability

Staff Software Engineer
08/2021 - 07/2022: Shanghai Office
07/2022 - 03/2023: Palo Alto Office

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, CA
Infra: 
 - Global service load balancing: Build system to make sure all critical micro-service's traffic is properly routed to/from each data center in a safe and low latency manner, and traffic can be safely shifted to nearby data centers when one data center has problem.
 - Facebook's common priority queue service (FOQS): Work on an extremely large scale and high-traffic low-latency priority queue system. The system is deployed in 13+ data centers around the world and handles 1 trillion jobs each day with P99 e2e latency of 7ms.

Product: 
- Facebook's Ad Campaign Planner to help brand advertisers plan ad campaigns more efficiently (See press http://www.adweek.com/digital/campaign-planner-business-manager/).

### Member of Technical Staff @ Avere Systems (Acquired by Microsoft)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Network File System
- RPC, TCP.


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Software Engineering
Xidian University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yu-zhang-61335048

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Last updated: 2026-03-22