Andrew Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of professional experience building large-scale systems at Google and Snowflake. He progressed rapidly from internships and early engineering roles into senior and staff-level positions, demonstrating a consistent focus on backend and data-centric platforms. A UIUC computer science graduate, he pairs strong academic fundamentals with practical experience across high-throughput production services and cloud data infrastructure. His career path shows an unusual blend of rapid promotions and cross-company mobility, suggesting both technical depth and strong impact delivery. Comfortable in both established tech giants and smaller teams, he brings a pragmatic, results-driven approach to architecting reliable systems. Outside of work he presents the rare profile of a recent graduate by degree yet a seasoned practitioner by experience, which helps him bridge fresh academic thinking with production realities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (21)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
codex9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
chat-application9
input-mask8
copilot8
credit-card7
reinforcement-learning7
chatbot6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ajikan/WAND-Implementation
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
ajikan/ajikan.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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