Benny Zhao
Senior Software Engineer at Stash
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 8 years of experience building user-focused front-end systems using React, Redux, Node.js, and modern testing stacks like Jest and Selenium. He has driven measurable product impact—most recently optimizing registration flows at Stash with GraphQL batching to improve frontend paint time and boost user enrollment. Benny has led small teams and spearheaded reusable component libraries and responsive design standards, shipping cross-browser solutions and expanding SDK capabilities for real-time features. Comfortable collaborating with design and backend partners, he combines pragmatic engineering with strong QA discipline, having established E2E test suites and raised unit test coverage in prior roles. Though primarily frontend-focused, he also brings full-stack sensibility from App Academy training and a track record of integrating complex integrations such as websockets and STT.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Syracuse UniversityFull stack web development, Full stack web development at App Academy
Github Skills (9)
styled-components8
react7
css7
pdf7
css-in-js6
javascript6
pdf-viewer6
pdfjs5
react-pdf4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Bennyz811/Velp
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:292 commits, 147 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Bennyz811/Zombie-Attack
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:91 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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