Yejia Zhang - Resume

Education

BS in Computer Engineering, Purdue University Aug. 2022 – May 2026

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - GPA: 3.73/4.0 West Lafayette, IN

Courses: Microprocessor Systems & Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
Honors: Dean's List, Semester Honors

User Products Developer Intern Jun. 2025 – Aug. 2025

Product R&D and Infrastructure, ByteDance Ltd. Shanghai, China

Shipped multiple new features in the store's landing page, including high-visibility SPU (Standard Product Unit) cards that serve over 2 billion impressions per day to promote local businesses.
Developed several product and technical features for the marketplace module in the short video platform's life services division, handling millions of page views per hour.
Led the adaptation of the Lynx-based frontend for a new mobile OS, resolving over 50 UI/UX defects to ensure a seamless experience for millions of users.
Enhanced the interaction tracking log events with new fields to analyze the correlation between item visibility sequence and other properties.

Open Source Contributions Aug. 2020 – Present

Contributed over 1,000 commits since 2020 across public and private GitHub repositories, including web development, AI integrations, embedded systems and other interesting projects.
Made public contributions to multiple GitHub projects including cloudflare/quiche, hyprland-plugins, George-Miao/qbit, HanaokaYuzu/Gemini-API, spanning network protocols, computer graphics, plugins and APIs.
Deployed several applications to Cloudflare, Azure, and Akamai; maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated testing, linting, and containerized deployments; hosting personal websites on self-managed Linux servers with Docker (Podman) and NGINX.

Purdue University Senior Design Project Jan. 2025 – May. 2025

Developed Stratos, a client–server video-processing platform for format conversion, compression, and AI-driven enhancements (e.g., transcriptions, slow motion, FPS boost).
Designed and implemented a microservices architecture using Node.js, Svelte, PyTorch, and FFmpeg, featuring scalability, real-time queue management, user accessibility, and MIT license compliance.
Engineered a real-time task progress reporting system using Server-Sent Events (SSE), significantly enhancing user interaction throughout the video processing workflow.

HIDEx (Rust-based HID Input Forwarder on Raspberry Pi) Jun. 2024 – Aug. 2024

Developed a high-efficiency USB HID gadget in Rust for Raspberry Pi Zero and 4B, capturing low-level input events via evdev and forwarding them as HID mouse reports through /dev/hidg1.
Implemented an event-driven architecture with blocking I/O using nix::poll, achieving sub-millisecond average latency, enabling precise and responsive mouse input emulation with optimized CPU usage.
Adhered to minimalist and functionally-inspired design principles, significantly reducing runtime complexity and achieving the fastest mouse latency among Raspberry Pi HID input proxies.

Languages: Go, Rust, C, Python, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin

Technologies: Linux, Git, Docker, NGINX, Node.js, PyTorch, Cloudflare Workers

Areas: Embedded Systems, Web Applications, DevOps, Software Development

Chinese: Native

English: Professional (TOEFL iBT: 107/120)