About

Max Zhang is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 9 years of relevant experience in the industry. He possesses a strong background in architecture and development of scalable production quality backend systems, coupled with a good understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, and indexing. Max has a proven ability to work in a cross-functional team that touches many parts of the core systems, with strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and system level programming, including multi-threaded programming. Max is a self-starter who enjoys and takes pride in the development work of his team. He loves to use and develop open source technologies like Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, and Spark. Max's working knowledge of relational/non-relational databases and query authoring is exceptional. He has strong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills, and he is able to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast-paced environment. Max's education history includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Renmin University of China. He has worked with top companies such as Facebook and Expedia, where he held positions as Software Engineer and Software Development Engineer II, respectively. Currently, Max is an Engineering Manager at Coupang, where he continues to demonstrate his technical prowess and leadership skills. Max's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Spark, Software Engineer, Hadoop, Kafka, and Apache Hive. Overall, Max is an excellent Engineering Manager who brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to any team he works with.