Baozhang Ren
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolBaozhang Ren is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems across startups and large tech companies, currently at Atlassian in Sunnyvale. He has shipped production messaging APIs at Facebook/Instagram and led full-stack development for a high-traffic EHR and patient portal at Done., blending backend, frontend and product-focused engineering. His graduate research and internships emphasize computer vision and ML—applying Mask R-CNN, pose tracking and action recognition to real-world surveillance and education problems—and he’s pursuing faster, more accurate ML models. An active open-source contributor, he improved Privacy Badger’s tracker logic and DNT handling, showing attention to privacy and cross-browser behavior. Comfortable in Java and Python, Baozhang pairs strong engineering execution with a knack for turning academic vision into deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Driving Car Engineer Nano Degree Computer Vision/Robotics, Self-Driving Car Engineer Nano Degree Computer Vision/Robotics at UdacityBachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at Hong Kong Baptist UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science&Data Science, Master's degree Computer Science&Data Science at Rutgers University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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420reached
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
browser-extension10
testing10
privacy10
opera-extension10
webextension10
chrome-extension9
cookie9
google-chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
firefox-webextension8
web-development7
unity-game-engine6
virtualenv6
unity-webgl6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/privacybadger
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Baozhang primarily contributed to the Privacy Badger browser extension by addressing issues related to wildcard whitelisting and subdomain logic. They implemented and tested code changes in JavaScript files, including background scripts and test utilities, to improve the extension's behavior in handling privacy settings. Further contributions involved merging updates from the upstream repository and refining DNT settings.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
tashachin/GotGame
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Hackbright solo project: Video-game review web app.
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 3 months
hackbrightgamereviewsolovideo-game
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