Zhe Zhang

Zhe Zhang is an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn where he leads the Core Big Data Services team. The team leverages open source technologies including Hadoop， Spark， TensorFlow， and beyond， to form the storage-compute engine of LinkedIn’s big data platform. Zhe is also a PMC member of Apache Hadoop， and author of HDFS erasure coding， a major feature for Hadoop 3.0. Before LinkedIn， Zhe worked at Cloudera and IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center. Zhe has over 20 research publications and 5 US patents. While at IBM， he received the Research Accomplishment Award and the Outstanding Technology Achievement Award.