Jingyi Zhao
Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJingyi Zhao is a software engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native platforms, currently developing internal content management services at Walmart Global Tech in San Francisco. She previously helped build a data-mesh product at Promethium that reduced the need for ETL and enabled natural-language text-to-SQL queries against enterprise data. Trained originally in chemical engineering and chemistry (BS) and later in computer science and engineering (MS), she brings a research-driven, experimental mindset to production software. Her background includes hands-on lab research on homogeneous organometallic catalysts, evidencing a penchant for complex problem solving across domains. Jingyi combines product-focused engineering with data-oriented systems thinking, making her effective at bridging backend infrastructure, data access patterns, and user-facing features. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and curious, able to move from prototype to reliable platform work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science - MS, Computer science and engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer science and engineering at University at Buffalo
English, Chinese, Japanese, French
Github Skills (172)
spark-sql10
dashboard10
postgresql10
athena10
python10
vector-database10
redash10
copilot10
embedding10
llama-index10
flask10
data-driven10
javascript10
data-exploration10
chatgpt10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jzhao62/looker
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:16 PRs, 167 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
jingyi-zhao-01/llama_index
Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
LlamaIndex is a data framework for your LLM applications
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 8 months
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