Anthony Zhang
Co-Founder at Hypotenuse Labs
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnthony Zhang is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building AI, data, and web products and rescuing teams under tight deadlines. As Co-Founder of Hypotenuse Labs, he blends strategic vision with hands-on engineering across distributed systems, security, data engineering, and exploratory machine learning. His background includes software roles spanning biomedical research and finance, and he’s an active open-source contributor—work on projects like metrics-graphics added interactive linked charts and rollover effects while his Python packaging contributions helped put a speech recognition module on PyPI. Based in Waterloo and a former CS student at uWaterloo, he pairs startup grit with practical engineering discipline to turn ambiguous problems into shipping products.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
python10
setuptools10
packaging10
data-visualisation10
front-end-development10
data-visualization10
speech-recognition10
pypi10
d3js10
jquery9
documentation8
rs7
grammar6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Uberi/speech_recognition
Apr 2014 - May 2022
Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 272 commits, 54 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's commits focused on setting up the packaging format and putting the project online at PyPI, demonstrating a strong understanding of Python package management. They also switched the README to RST format and made minor environmental changes. Additionally, they added an AUTHORS section and updated API documentation, which indicates a contribution towards project maintainability and documentation. The code changes are primarily focused on project setup and build processes.
pythonasrspeech-to-textrecognitionctc
metricsgraphics/metrics-graphics
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
A library optimized for concise and principled data graphics and layouts.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the functionality of the `metricsgraphics/metrics-graphics` library. They implemented support for linked charts and rollover effects within the library. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues related to mouseover interactions in linked chart scenarios. These changes directly involved modifications to the core JavaScript code, indicating a focus on both front-end and potentially back-end integration within the library's overall design.
optimizedgraphicslayouts
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