Hanyi Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest with over six years of experience in designing large-scale backend systems and real-time data processing solutions. He previously architected a GPU-accelerated inference pipeline using Apache Flink and developed an online serving stack for large language models, effectively handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second to identify unsafe search queries. Additionally, Hanyi has engineered Flink-powered solutions to generate near real-time content quality signals for newly published content. His expertise extends beyond Flink to encompass the broader data ecosystem, including Apache Spark and Airflow.