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 – PresentBackend 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 2023Backend 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 2022Backend 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
2018M.S. Computer Science
Los Angeles, CA
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2016B.E. Internet of Things
Beijing, China