Brian Zhou
Software Engineer at Liftoff, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zhou is a software engineer with 14 years of full-stack experience, currently leading greenfield projects in auction and supply path optimization at Liftoff in Sunnyvale. He builds minimalist, user-focused interfaces and robust, scalable backend services—recent work spans creative design tooling, analytics, and A/B testing infrastructure. Past roles include designing an authentication microservice and sales forecasting tools at Clari, and developing performance-focused Flash/HTML5 video players and server-side content stitching for Ooyala. An active contributor to internal tooling and open-source code review systems, he combines product-minded engineering with attention to documentation and developer UX. Trained in both business and computer science, he brings a pragmatic appreciation for operational workflows and monetization mechanics to technical decisions.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business Administration, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Economics & Strategy, Computer Science, Psychology, B.S. Business Administration, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Economics & Strategy, Computer Science, Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (7)
autocomplete10
regex10
code-review10
ruby10
coffeescript9
javascript9
sinatra9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ooyala/barkeep
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
The friendly code review system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the existing code review system, implementing new features, and improving the user experience. Contributions included modifying the codebase to linkify commit SHAs, streamlining the tab completion feature for search functionality, and adding documentation. Furthermore, the user addressed code style and documentation to improve code readability.
reviewsemgrep
zdyn/cooldown.js
May 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 13 days
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