Benjamin Zhao
Software Engineer at Optiver
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Zhao is a software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-performance trading and consumer systems, currently on garden leave from Optiver and slated to join Jane Street. He shipped execution-focused systems on Optiver’s Delta One desk and interned on core backend teams at Roblox, gaining deep exposure to low-latency services and large-scale social platform infrastructure. A University of Michigan computer science student and former data structures tutor, he blends strong algorithmic foundations with practical production experience. Early product internship work at Ford and cross-team roles at Roblox indicate a comfort moving between hardware-adjacent product engineering and cloud-native backend challenges. Colleagues describe him as a quick learner who thrives at the intersection of systems performance and reliable, scalable product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Huron High School
Chinese, Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminzhao/ESP8266_AD7705_DEMO
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
benjaminzhao/sim900
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 13 days
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