# Yu Zhou > Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Turo Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yuzhou - Hands-on development with more than 15 years of experience serving key role in software R&D for global companies. - Extensive experience of large-scale distributed software development. - Proficiency in Java, familiar with Python&C&&C++ & C#. - Strong expertise in microservice and REST service API development. - Hands on experince on Hadoop ecosystem: Map-reduce,HDFS, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Kafka and Spark. - Advanced knowledge of Multithread, performance, system programming, 64 bit programming. - Have a good knowledge of SQL Server、MySQL and PostgreSQL. Familiar with database internal. - Professional experience in database access technology and ODBC/JDBC/ADO.Net specification. - Rich experiences in diagnosing complicated issues and grasp field debugging tools. - Professional experience of basic data structure and algorithm. - Familiar with OOA/OOD/design pattern/system design. - Good knowledge of software testing and software developing process. - Have a good skill to IAMP、LDAP and Cassandra. - Familiar with git, maven & ant and shell script on multiple platforms. Specialties: large scale java software development, database(SQL/NoSQL), performance tuning, Web Service(Rest), Data and Messaging Middleware,Data virtualization,Data Integration/Migration ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ Turo Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Turo is world largest peer-to-peer car-sharing platform. Focus: Machine learning infrastructure especially model deployment & serving Lead efforts in deploying and scaling machine learning models for production environments. Design and implement scalable model serving infrastructure and optimize runtime through ONNX Encapsulate ML models into microservice containers (Model-as-a-Service, MSVC) for efficient and reusable deployment. Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability of model inference pipelines. ### Senior Software Engineer @ EPAM Systems Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California Backend and data pipeline development and maintenance for music steaming services with hundreds of millions of users ### Senior Software Engineer @ Synchronoss Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Beijing City, China I previously worked at Openwave Messaging, a software provider specializing in messaging server products for mobile carriers and ISPs. During my tenure, the company was acquired by Synchronoss Technologies, a leading provider of cloud, messaging, and digital transformation solutions for the telecommunications industry. Sr member of Messaging Server Roadmap Development Team especially focus on two aspects: 1. mOS API the messaging oriented open services: Engaged in development and maintenance email services. Devoted to developing and maintaining mOS API the messaging oriented open restful services which can be used to create applications on top of the OpenWave Universal Messaging Suite. Also worked on migration server to promote customers experience on migrating from Gmail or Microsoft Outlook to Openwave Mail System as well upgrading from old Openwave Mx to new version. 2. Webtop folder/message APIs: improved the access performance in the direct accessing way to cassandra instead of standard IMAP mode. ### R&D Technical Lead @ 神舟通用数据技术有限公司 Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Beijing City, China 1. ShenTong Database is among the top three Chinese homegrown general relational databases and ranked the first at OLTP database field competition on 'Core Electronic Devices, High-end Generic Chips and Fundamental Software' host by China government. 2. ShenTong xCluster is shared-nothing massively parallel processing architecture clustered database system for data warehousing designed for ShenTong kstore, the column-based database. ShenTong xCluster includes intelligence to parallelize over multiple servers for achieving faster query response times. R&D leader for ShenTong MPP xCluster & ShenTong Database Drivers and Tools & Architect for ShenTong database frontend leaded projects development: - Added runtime diagnose mechanism into ShenTong xCluster for monitoring and logging the rumtime information of the distributed cluster system; - improved xCluster high availability: xCluster multi-replicas mechanism; - SQL whole path performance optimization: Co-designed one new protocol between backend and frontend which use protocol mechanism, thus significantly reduced the bytes that transferred which gained performance 30%. - Migration Tool for ShenTong Database: multiple threading migration, restart migration from breakpoint, migration template and migration real-time monitor, migration based on partitioning. - ETL tool K-Fusion: Customize ETL based on Kettle to add several features. Added several new features like “incremental migration data”, “bulk-insert import to Cluster Database” etc. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Composite Software Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Beijing City, China The Composite Data Virtualization Platform is data virtualization middleware that brings together data from multiple, disparate sources -- anywhere across the extended enterprise-- into a unified, logical virtualized data layer for consumption by nearly any front-end business solution including portals, reports, applications and more. The Composite ODBC and ADO.NET driver code owner. - Designed and implemented Composite ADO.NET driver based on ADO.NET 2.0 specification. - Implemented 64-bit Composite ODBC driver on various *nix platforms. - Also developed lots of features on comprehensive modules within Composite Information Server such as Datasource, Admin API, Export/Import, Designer, Validation, DBAPI, JDBC etc. - Reproduced and analyzed the customer issues which ran into in the production environment. Solved critical and difficult to diagnose issues for VIP customers such as Dell and BP and helped to turn around the situation. ### Software Engineer @ Huawei Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Beijing City, China HUAWEI is one of the world's largest and most prominent technology companies, primarily known for its telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and smartphones. Huawei has played a significant role in the global telecom industry and has a broad range of products and services that span various sectors. Took responsible for Forwarding Programming Interface of 8090 core router which was the most high end router of Huawei of that era, oversaw programming, enhancement, and deployment of key software and systems targeted to data communication. Engaged in several key projects on implementing complex layer 2&3 network protocols, such as BFD, QinQ and Port Isolating etc. ### Software Engineer @ China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Beijing City, China Norinco Group is one of the world's largest defense contractors. As the software engineer at Information Center of China North Industries Group Corporation, took responsible for designing, developing and maintaining of the enterprise level management information systems for the whole corporation. Mainly developed and implemented investment management system overseeing investment project data and providing complex reporting to guide executive decision-making. ## Education ### Graduate Certificate Program in Machine Learning and Data Science Carnegie Mellon University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Maharishi International University ### Master's degree in Computer Software and Theory Beihang University ### Bachelor in Computer Science Jilin University ### MBA University of Chinese Academy of Sciences ### Stanford Continuing Studies ### Tangshan No.1 High School ### Data Science and Machine Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuzhoujoe --- Source: https://flows.cv/yuzhou JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yuzhou/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12