Tianyu Zhu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianyu Zhu is a technical generalist and undergraduate researcher with seven years of hands-on experience building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, debugging complex C/C++ codebases, and automating system workflows. Based in Hoboken and studying Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, he has applied networking and SysAdmin expertise across volunteer and professional roles—designing global monitoring stacks (Grafana/Prometheus/Thanos), RBAC identity systems, and hypervisor suites to improve uptime and developer experience. He pairs low-level debugging of shell and C++ systems with practical web and marketing work that helped increase product adoption at Inferno Communications. Known for reducing support response times and improving site reliability, he thrives on parallelization and performance problems and is actively sharpening his craft at the Recurse Center. Notably, he blends production operations experience with a developer’s mindset, making him effective at both building tools and mentoring new contributors in distributed environments.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (139)
nix10
linux10
virtualization10
shell10
vscode-remote10
vscode10
development-environment10
ide10
plugin10
administration10
credit-card9
nixos9
coredns9
public-suffix-list9
docker9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
BasedDevelopment/auto
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
EVE Agent: Exposes an API for eve to control libvirt, manage iso and vm disks, and configuring firewall.
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 2 months
firewalllibvirt
ezrizhu/www
Jul 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 264 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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