Zhuo Jia
Howdy, I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Uber, building backend scalable distributed systems and exciting product features.
- Successfully led or contributed to various projects at Uber Eats, focusing on empowering merchants to achieve their campaign goals while optimizing user costs.
- Developed and improved internal tools and middlewares at Uber, which improved engineering efficiency and system reliability.
- Love leveraging metrics to effectively communicate the impact of our initiatives to the leadership team and skateholders.
- Firmly believe that it's never too late to invest in learning and growing as an active investor.
- Keen to learn more about large-scale distributed systems, fintech, AI and new technologies.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Product)
Uber • New York City • NY
Tech lead of Store Promotion (Offers) team.
- Led the development of new promotion types: %OFF and BOGA (Buy One Get Another)
- Built the 1st Grocery promotion ingestion system, serving ~100 million item discounts from 70k+ grocery/new-vertical stores per day
- Implemented the 1st promotion external-api
- More...

Software Engineer II (Infra)
Uber • San Francisco • CA
Building high-availability services and reliable systems for Uber Eats. Focusing on infrastructure tools and platforms to help engineers reduce toil and create production-ready services.

Software Engineer
SAP Labs • San Ramon • CA
Worked on NDS (Native Disk) project in the HANA core team, developing next-generation disk storage solutions to increase persistent IO throughput while reducing memory footprint.

HANA Backend Developer
SAP Labs • Wisconsin
Developed scalable solutions for HANA Enterprise Information Management (EIM), extending HANA database capabilities for data integration and quality management.

M.S. Computer Engineering
Duke University • GPA: 3.72/4.0
Focused on distributed systems, algorithms, and computer vision. Conducted research under Prof. Qinghuo Liu.