Zhiyi Huang
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at Tesla
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiyi Huang is a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading high-throughput backend systems, currently driving distributed architecture at Tesla in Berlin. He has led teams handling up to 700k QPS, architected migrations from bare-metal to AWS EKS, and delivered GDPR-compliant data residency solutions while making critical technical decisions. A hands-on engineer by background, he implemented large-scale mobile measurement platforms (Golang, Redis, Kafka, Aerospike, PostgreSQL) and improved system resiliency during major data-center incidents. His open-source contributions include backend work on a Redis-backed Go message queue, where he added queue management, graceful shutdown, and improved test coverage. Previously he combined low-level performance engineering in medical device rendering with backend leadership at Adjust, showing a rare blend of systems-level optimization and team stewardship. Fluent in cross-functional collaboration, he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational rigor to ship scalable, production-grade distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
German, Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
go10
redis10
message-queue10
concurrency10
testing9
api-design8
software-design7
system-design7
sys7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wellle/rmq
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Message queue system written in Go and backed by Redis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhiyi primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the message queue system. Their work included implementing features related to queue management, consumer behavior, and state handling. They added functionality for name filtering in the overview handler and modified the connection and queue interfaces to support the new features. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to incorporate wait groups to ensure graceful shutdown and improved the debugging and test coverage.
gomessage-queueredisgolang
NeoHuang/sandbox
Aug 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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