Barak Zhou
I’m Barak Zhou, a backend and distributed-systems engineer with 7+ years building production services, reliability tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure.
About
I’m Barak Zhou, a backend and distributed-systems engineer with 7+ years building production services, reliability tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure. I work primarily with Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, and I enjoy connecting application logic to real-world systems—PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes—to make services fast, resilient, and observable.
Across my roles at NVIDIA, LinkedIn, and Cisco Meraki, I’ve focused on building and supporting dependable platforms through strong engineering practices (TDD, testing, code reviews) and practical DevOps (CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, IAM/RBAC). Most recently, I helped optimize LLM routing and inference to reduce costs, improve latency, and raise task success—balancing performance and quality while keeping operations stable.
- 6 years' experience
- Joined October 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Computers & Electronics
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Work experience
Develop and support Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST API integrations that connect application logic to production cloud-native infrastructure. Work with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes to support distributed workflows, data access, deployment, and operational reliability. Improve automated testing and CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Terraform, and troubleshoot application and deployment issues. Optimized LLM routing and inference by reducing costs 20%, improving response latency 30%, and increasing task success 5% relative.
Supported large-scale distributed services across deployment, monitoring, incident response, and performance troubleshooting in production. Collaborated with software engineers to investigate application and infrastructure failures, strengthen service reliability, and improve operational processes. Contributed to automation, CI/CD improvements, technical documentation, and cross-team engineering reviews.
Supported cloud-connected production platforms through infrastructure automation, service monitoring, and debugging of reliability and deployment issues. Worked with engineering teams on root-cause analysis, operational tooling, and production change safety.
Education
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