Boyan Zhou
Software Engineer at Instacart
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBoyan Zhou is a software engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven and production-grade systems across e-commerce and analytics companies. He has strong hands-on skills in Python, C++, Bash, Java, and databases, and has worked on data engineering and SDE roles at Amazon, NielsenIQ, and most recently Instacart. Early roles show a knack for practical impact—launching an 80% accurate forecasting model that reduced product rejects and driving UX improvements that grew user adoption by 15%. Comfortable with both analytics pipelines and backend engineering, he bridges data manipulation, system optimization, and legacy refactors to deliver measurable outcomes. Based in Markham, Ontario and trained at the University of Waterloo, he brings a pragmatic, results-oriented approach informed by experience at both startups and large tech firms.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (6)
genomics7
bioinformatics7
meta3
pipeline3
devops1
profiling1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BoyanZhou/AntCaller
Jan 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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BoyanZhou/LongStrain
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 12 pushes, 3 tags in 3 years 2 months
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