Peng Zhang

Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems

Bay Area, CA

Backend engineer with 6 years of experience building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems at scale. Specialized in real-time data pipelines, API platform architecture, and performance optimization serving 100M+ users.

Experience

Adobe

Sept 2023 – Present

Backend Software Development Engineer

San Jose, CA

  • Public API Platform: Unified API aggregation layer consolidating 100+ microservice calls
  • AI Agent Infrastructure (MCP): Real-time context retrieval system for AI agents
  • Pipeline Isolation Architecture: Dual-pipeline system eliminating multi-tenant blocking

Meta

Apr 2022 – June 2023

Backend Software Development Engineer

Menlo Park, CA

  • AI Infrastructure (C++/Rust): Core services for global ML training and inference fleet
  • Accelerator Enablement: GPU driver lifecycle and custom accelerator management

Amazon

Aug 2019 – Mar 2022

Backend Software Development Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

  • FairPlay DRM (Tech Lead): End-to-end DRM service, reduced P95 latency from 130ms to 35ms
  • Streaming Platform: Distributed infrastructure handling 80K-140K TPS

Skills

Languages

JavaC++RustPythonNode.jsSQL

Distributed Systems

Low-latency APIsReal-time PipelinesEvent-driven SystemsMulti-tenant Architecture

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSKubernetesDockerKafka

Databases

MySQLMongoDBAerospikeDynamoDB

Education

University of Southern California

2018

M.S. Computer Science

Los Angeles, CA

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

2016

B.E. Internet of Things

Beijing, China