Daisy Zhou
Software Engineer at Discord
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaisy Zhou is a seasoned backend software engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and reliable data pipelines, currently contributing to Discord's platform. Her background includes designing distributed asynchronous processing at Dropbox and working on production data pipelines, Kafka-based queuing services, and in-house logging infrastructure. She began her career enabling model deployment and data pipelines at WibiData, contributing to the open-source KijiExpress project and managing enterprise deployments. Based in Greater Sacramento with dual training in cognitive science and computer science from UC Berkeley, she blends systems-level engineering with a user-minded perspective. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic generalist who surfaces practical improvements across complex, high-throughput systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (59)
erlang10
elixir10
discord10
image-resizer10
locks10
semaphore9
cgo8
jpeg8
png8
driver8
distributed-systems8
resize-images8
animated-gif8
image8
scala7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
discord/ex_hash_ring
Oct 2019 - Apr 2025
A fast consistent hash ring implementation in Elixir.
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 comments in 5 years 6 months
elixirerlanghashringdistributed-systems
kijiproject/kiji-top-level
Jan 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:217 commits in 1 year 6 months
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