Brenda Zhang is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable front-end and platform features across startups and enterprise teams in the Bay Area. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at AppLovin after progressive roles there and at Adobe, she has shipped navigation runtimes, service workers, and integrations that improved performance and unified complex product suites. Her background in cognitive science informs a user-centered approach to engineering, from accessibility initiatives to designing developer-facing APIs. She has led community and technical programs at CS Career Hub, growing engagement and building automation tools and web platforms. Beyond code, Brenda writes freelance pieces and has blended research experience with practical tooling—automating data workflows in psychology and biomedical research early in her career. Based in San Francisco, she looks for product-driven roles where interdisciplinary thinking and clear communication accelerate impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
A message moderation bot that automatically "stops" and deletes messages for Discord server admins and mods. Uses Node/Express, Discord.js, Postgres
Contributions:2 releases, 193 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
discord-jsnode-expressdiscorddiscordjsstop
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