Andy Zhao
Software Engineer at Achievers
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndy Zhao is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems and APIs across Python, Ruby on Rails, Django, Node.js, and C-family languages. A University of Waterloo computer science co-op, he has shipped production automation that saved thousands of hours—generating millions of documents at Allstate and automating client onboarding and real-time data pipelines at EZee Assist. He contributes to notable open-source projects like forem/forem with backend and view fixes, demonstrating pragmatic server-side skills alongside occasional front-end touches. Comfortable in fast-paced co-op cycles, Andy pairs strong collaboration and leadership from competitive athletics with a track record of turning manual processes into scalable, reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, 97% graduating average, International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, 97% graduating average at Glenforest Secondary SchoolBachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (3)
rails10
ruby-rails10
ruby10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:498 reviews, 395 commits, 565 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily worked on back-end improvements and bug fixes, demonstrated by contributions to stories controller, story listing features and by fixing code related to comments on user profiles. The user's commits touched upon Rails and Ruby, indicating a focus on server-side development aspects of the project. They also made adjustments to views, indicating some front end touches.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
Zhao-Andy/dev.to
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow
Contributions:1095 pushes, 324 branches in 2 years 8 months
reactcssjavascriptsharegrow
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