Ezri Zhu’s Resume

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Experience

Portfolio Management Team Lead - GSMIF

(incoming) 2025-09 - 2025-12 @ Hoboken, NJ

Recurser - Recurse Center

2025-05 - 2025-08 @ Brooklyn, NY

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Visiting Research Intern - Columbia University

2024-05 - 2025-05 @ New York, NY

• Developed a monitoring system using Prometheus and Grafana to track the health of network muxes.
• Created a software tool in Golang to aggregate routing data from various sources, monitor specific routes, and expose metrics.
• Conducted experiments to identify and improve network performance bottlenecks in the PEERING infrastructure.

Head of Quant Development & Optimization - SSMIF

2025-01 - 2025-05 @ Hoboken, NJ

• Designed and implemented a centralized financial database system in Clickhouse that automatically collects and processes market data from multiple sources (FRED, Terminal, YFinance), including managing the back adjust price processing system, to power risk analytics and financial models.
• Led the development of a robust k3s Kubernetes stack featuring redundant databases that support our financial modeling systems, fullstack applications, and model creation/monitoring utilities, while implementing a comprehensive observability stack to ensure visibility of metrics and logs across all systems.

Quantitative Analyst - SSMIF

2024-09 - 2024-12 @ Hoboken, NJ

• Improved existing equity screening interfaces, including AuthN, AuthZ, SSO, and implementing CI/CD.

VP Technology - Stevens Blueprint

2023-07 - 2025-05 @ Hoboken, NJ

• Lead the technology team to develop and maintain internal tooling, compute infrastructure, and documentation to sustain our mission.
• Assisted other teams on their testing, CI/CD pipelines and hosting infrastructure to speed up development.

Undergrad Research Asisstant - PaSH Group

2023-04 - Present @ Hoboken, NJ

• Debugged and modified complex C++ and C codebases to trace shell scripts in order to parallelize shell scripts.
• Utilized various Linux APIs via POSIX script to develop parts of our tool try, as well as writing documentation and CI.
• Debugged various Linux Kernel features mostly involving namespaces and mounts for “try.”

Volunteer Deputy-CTO @ Fosshost

2021-10 - 2022-05 @ Remote

• Assisted leading TechOps in maintaining a fleet of linux hypervisors around the world, ensuring service availability.
• Onboarded and mentored new volunteers, including familiarizing them with the organization and its technologies.
• Designed, deployed, and maintained a monitoring system at scale that enhanced the team’s observability.

Volunteer Techops @ Fosshost

2020-10 - 2022-05 @ Remote

• Installed and configured support system to minimize support response time, and Gitlab for collaboration.
• Led in designing an identity and access system (RBAC), allowing for better control over system permissions.
• Deployed a global private network to facilitate secure communications between volunteers and internal infrastructure.

Projects

wolfgirl.systems

• Distributed managed NixOS public unix server cluster.

EVE

Golang, Postgres, mTLS, x506, CI/CD, Makefiles, Structured Logging

• A hypervisor suite for mid-scale server hosting deployments, with security and ease of usage in mind.
• Using mTLS to ensure secure connection between agent and main controller over any environment.
• RESTful API for users to control their resources, and for admins to manage users and create new machines.

EzriCloud

Dual Stack Educational Network: BGP, RouterOS, Fastnetmon, Proxmox, Grafana, Prometheus, vLAN, IXP

• Provided reliable free hosting for 50+ students/open-source projects over a cluster of servers, and BGP transit for 10+ BGP networks.
• Developed a status checking website in Golang to minimize incident response time.
• Debugged various user networking issues, triaging incidents of various complexity ranging from user error to site wide DDoS attacks.

Personal Blog

Rust, Docker, CI/CD, responsive web design, high availability, SEO

• A personal website utilizing Rust’s concurrency and memory safety features. All requests are served directly from RAM.
• Used Github Actions, Watchtowers, Nginx with load balancing, resulting in a high availability setup.
• Maintaining an active blog about my journey in Computer Science.

Linux Systems Independent Research

• Authored a comprehensive short book examining key differences between Linux distributions and their impact on software development, covering distribution building processes, cross-distribution compatibility, and practical reproduction guides for analysis

Skills

Programming: Node.JS, Python, Golang, bash, POSIX shell, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Rust, BPF, C++, C, Java, Scheme, CI/CD tools, git, Postgres

SRE: NGINX, Apache, Docker, Debian, RHEL, libvirt/KVM, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, NixOS, Ansible, Puppet

Computer Networking & Security: BGP, Nftables, routerOS, EOS, IRR, RPKI, WireGuard, OpenVPN, MTR, Netcat, Metasploit, nmap, IPS

Education

B.S. in Computer Science @ Stevens Institute of Technology

2022-09 - 2026-05 @ Hoboken NJ

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Discrete Structures, Algorithms, Statistics, Computer Architecture, Systems Programming, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Systems Administration, Theory of Computation, Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing, Automated Techniques for Security, Privacy & Reliability

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