Kathy Zhang / Software Engineer

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kathy zhangSoftware Engineer

Software Engineer II
at Microsoft.

I build Azure data pipelines, developer tools, and AI agents for financial reporting.

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ABOUT

01 / BACKGROUND

About

My work at Microsoft focuses on financial reporting systems: moving data securely across Azure tenants, improving SQL query-generation tools, and automating reporting workflows with GitHub Copilot.

I graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 2020.

Outside of work, I maintain a homelab with Unraid and Ubuntu servers, containerized applications, and a dedicated backup server.

02 / EXPERIENCE & PROJECTS

Work

Full resume

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Microsoft

Apr 2021 — present

Software Engineer II

Building data infrastructure and developer tools for financial reporting.

Led cross-tenant Azure Synapse pipelines for multi-million-row datasets.
Built a GitHub Copilot agent that cut new-field delivery from ~3 weeks to ~1 hour, with engineering review.
Improved SQL query-generation tooling, production reliability, and automated network isolation.

Azure & data infrastructureDeveloper toolingAI agents

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Software Engineer Intern

Built a React and Hack application to compare image-recognition models using marketplace product recommendations.

ReactHackModel evaluation

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Homelab

Personal project

Self-hosted infrastructure

Run containerized services across Unraid and Ubuntu, with reverse proxies and a dedicated SnapRAID and mergerfs backup server.

LinuxDockerNetworking & storage

03 / RECENT POSTS

Journal

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An overview of the experience, projects, and posts on this site.

04 / EMAIL & LINKS

Contact

kazhang68@gmail.com