Zhe Zhang
Senior Manager, Core Big Data Infra, LinkedIn

Zhe Zhang is a senior manager of core big data infrastructure at LinkedIn, where he leads an excellent engineering team to provide big data services (Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS), YARN, Spark, TensorFlow, and beyond) to power LinkedIn’s business intelligence and relevance applications. Zhe’s an Apache Hadoop PMC member; he led the design and development of HDFS Erasure Coding (HDFS-EC).

Sessions

9:05–9:20 Thursday, 17 October 2019

Location: King's Suite

Machine learning challenges at LinkedIn: Spark, TensorFlow, and beyond

Secondary topics: Machine Learning, Machine Learning tools

Zhe Zhang (LinkedIn)

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(4.12, 8 ratings)

From people you may know (PYMK) to economic graph research, machine learning is the oxygen that powers how LinkedIn serves its 630M+ members. Zhe Zhang provides you with an architectural overview of LinkedIn’s typical machine learning pipelines complemented with key types of ML use cases. Read more.

13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019

Location: King's Suite - Balmoral

Improve the speed of ML innovations at LinkedIn

Zhe Zhang (LinkedIn)

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(3.43, 7 ratings)

Machine learning (ML) engineering differs fundamentally from traditional software engineering in the level of uncertainty and unpredictability of an idea until fully verified in production. Join Zhe Zhang to explore the deciding factor in ML-based products (e.g., recommendation, ranking)—the speed of the trial-and-error loop. Read more.