About

Alan Zhang is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at LinkedIn, where he is responsible for focusing on streaming infrastructure. Alan is passionate about stream processing, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. Alan has a proven track record of success and has worked with some of the biggest companies in the tech industry. In his previous role at eBay, he was a key contributor to the next-generation real-time monitoring and log processing platform. He dealt with petabytes of data being generated from machines every day and designed an efficient system with respect to cost and performance to ensure that any degradation in the health of any critical services can be detected and remediated within minutes or even seconds. Alan utilized technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Thanos, Ceph, and more. Alan's contributions to the Thanos community have been recognized, and he was awarded the 2019 Spot Award for his work on solving the performance issue on metrics ingress service. He helped the team to optimize it, and it can now serve 5X traffic than before. In his previous role at eBay, Alan led the design and development of a brand new stream processing platform based on Flink. This platform provided a secure, scalable, and unified streaming platform to support efficient and fault-tolerant stateful stream processing in eBay. He was also a key contributor to the design and development of a new data platform called Rheos, which provides a near real-time buyer experience, seller insights, and a data-driven commercial business at eBay. Alan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Dalian University of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in the same field from the same university. He has experience in a wide range of technologies, including Kafka, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, and more. Alan is a skilled software engineer with a passion for stream processing, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.