Research SWE at CHTC, MSCS at UW-Madison
stay hungry, stay foolish (yeah, I know it’s a cliché, but hey, it’s been sitting on my desk since middle school, judging my snack choices and bad ideas ever since)
Highlights
Distributed Systems
w/ Golang, C++
As a core developer of Pelican, an open-source data distribution system
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Backend w/ Java
Previously working on Java Spring Boot microservices at a Fortune 500 company
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Backend w/ Node.js
Former startup founding engineer, powering an AI-integrated website and web-scraping pipelines
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Howard Zhong is a research software engineer at the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), working on “Pelican”, an open-source platform distributing PB-scale data. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UW-Madison and has 2+ years of experience building robust software systems — from enterprise microservices built on Java Spring Boot to open-source data federation. Howard enjoys untangling increasingly complex systems, viewing it as similar to climbing a mountain: the higher he climbs, the tougher the challenges—but the expanding views become increasingly rewarding, making the journey deeply satisfying.