Brian Zhu
Software Engineer at DoorDash
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zhu is a software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of hands-on experience and dual studies in Computer Science and Mathematics at Purdue University. He has built production features at scale—most recently shipping a React/TypeScript MJML video block used by over 150,000 Klaviyo customers—and now contributes to DoorDash’s engineering efforts. His background spans full-stack web development, NLP research (training a BERT-based entity recognizer on 1.7M sentences), FPGA simulation tooling, and teaching large-scale CS240 labs, demonstrating both practical shipping ability and pedagogy. Brian focuses on reliable, test-driven delivery (Jest, CI/CD, Sentry) and pragmatic engineering trade-offs like lossless thumbnail compression for storage efficiency. Outside work he’s an avid hiker and rock climber who also plays poker, bringing a calm, analytical mindset to both debugging and team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Park Tudor SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (23)
firebase-authentication9
authentication9
push-notifications9
firebase-storage9
firebase9
firebase-messaging8
firebase-functions8
firebase-database8
chat8
sdk8
viewcontroller8
messaging8
messenger7
objective-c7
jsqmessagesviewcontroller7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bzhu9/BasicChat
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
code-for-change-park-tudor/PT-Alumni
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Park Tudor Code for Change, project 1
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
parkproject-1
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