Anna Zhu
Software Engineer - Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAnna Zhu is a software engineer focused on platform engineering with 11 years of experience building developer-facing systems from San Francisco. She has been driving platform work at Helix since 2017, bringing practical production experience from earlier roles at AltairSix and hands-on internships in engineering education. With a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UC Santa Cruz, she pairs a scientific mindset with software craftsmanship to tackle complex infrastructure and reliability problems. Anna favors pragmatic, developer-first solutions that reduce friction for teams and simplify operational complexity. Though her GitHub presence is succinct (github.com/itsanna), her long tenure on platform teams suggests deep institutional knowledge and steady delivery in fast-moving environments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
multiple-languages6
data-structures5
java5
laravel4
cpp4
react4
nextjs3
rails3
ruby3
encoder2
react-redux2
slack2
spread1
redux1
get-started1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
itsanna/itsanna.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
:memo: My personal website + blog!
Contributions:5 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
reactnextjsblog-websitepersonal-blog-website
kathybeatz/chat-app
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:46 commits in 1 month
reactslack-clonereact-jsslackreactjs
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