Amy Zhao
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Zhao is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience building production services and leading teams at Capital One, where she advanced from intern to lead engineer within a few years. She combines strong backend skills (REST APIs, Spring, microservices) with frontend experience in React, and has driven measurable impact such as accelerating incident response and creating cross-team capabilities. Her background as a University of Maryland CS teaching assistant and course facilitator reflects a talent for translating complex technical concepts into clear instruction and documentation. Based in New York, she pairs hands-on implementation with stakeholder communication and process improvement, often surfacing user needs to shape pragmatic, reusable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (4)
real-time-data3
social-media3
react3
augmented-reality2
Github contributions (5)
zhaoamy/Capital-One-Airbnb-challenge
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
kyle8998/SocialSpend
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
reactrealitysocial-media-platformintegratedreal-time-data
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