Wei Zhang
weizhang@wpi.edu
Cell: 508-425-1796
34 Bowdoin St Apt 2L
Worcester, MA 01609



OBJECTIVE:
  * Full time position in Software Development.

EDUCATION:
  * Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA.
    Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Expected Aug 2012.

  * Tsinghua University, Beijing China.
    Master of Engineering in Computer Science. Dec 2004.

  * Zhongshan University, Guangzhou China.
    Bachelor of Science in Physics. Jun 1999.

SKILLS:
  * Programming Languages: Perl, Java, C and C++.
  * Operating Systems: Linux, Android, VxWorks and Windows.

EXPERIENCE:
  * Research Assistant, WPI, Worcester, MA. 01/2011 - Present
    Designed and implemented large scale distributed DNS performance measurement tools to evaluate third-party DNS providers which achieved high efficiency in data gathering and processing using multi-threads in Perl on Linux.

  * Research Assistant, WPI, Worcester, MA. 01/2008 - 12/2009
    Designed and implemented software tools in Perl on Linux for the performance evaluation and optimization of Web services including both front-end and back-end.
    Created tools for virtual machine managing, monitoring and load balancing using VMWare command line interface.

  * Software Engineer, Juniper Networks, Beijing China. 04/2007 - 07/2007
    Maintained the DNS client module written in C/C++ for the NetScreen firewall products.
    Improved the module to be one of the most robust modules in the products.

  * Software Engineer, Bitway Networks, Beijing China. 01/2005 - 03/2007
    Implemented the BGP routing module using C/C++ on VxWorks for the core router products which achieved the highest routing protocol performance among all Chinese based core router products as of 2006.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
  * Teaching Assistant, WPI, Worcester, MA. 01/2010 - 12/2010
  * Teaching Assistant, WPI, Worcester, MA. 08/2007 - 12/2007
  * Research Assistant, Tsinghua University, Beijing China. 02/2002 - 12/2004
  * Teaching Assistant, Tsinghua University, Beijing China. 09/2001 - 01/2002
  * Software Engineer, Bjbgt Inc, Beijing China. 07/1999 - 08/2001

HONORS:
  * Rank 35th among Topcoder active members in USA as of Apr 2011.
  * Rank top 100 in Google Code Jam 2010 among all USA contestants.
  * Gained a national award of scientific and technological accomplishment by the Ministry of Education of China in 2004.
  * Rank 1st in the national entrance examination for postgraduate in Tsinghua University in 2001.