Alvin Zhao
Senior Backend Software Development Engineer at Flip
Australia
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Top SchoolAlvin Zhao is a Senior Backend Software Development Engineer based in Australia with eight years of product-driven, polyglot engineering experience across startups and mid-size tech firms. He has shipped backend services, public APIs, identity and pricing systems at MYOB and helped build AI-driven clinical and imaging products at iCare and Lyrebird Health, where he was the second full-time engineer on an AI medical scribe. Comfortable across the full stack, Alvin blends pragmatic backend architecture with hands-on product instincts to move features from prototype to production. He currently focuses on backend systems at Flip after progressing through senior engineering roles that span healthcare AI, developer-facing APIs, and platform reliability. Alvin’s background in advanced computer science and a Certificate IV in Cyber Security underscores a strong foundation in secure, scalable system design. Colleagues would call out his ability to rapidly onboard into domain-heavy teams and deliver impactful, production-quality software under tight timelines.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV in Cyber Security, Certificate IV in Cyber Security at HolmesglenBachelor of Computer Science Advanced Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced Computer Science at Monash University
English, teochew, Japanese
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Github Skills (85)
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Github contributions (5)
yzAlvin/yzalvin.github.io
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:107 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
yzAlvin/website
Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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