Byron Zhang
Agent Engineer at Sierra
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolByron Zhang is an impact-driven Agent Engineer and staff-level software leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling 0→1 products across healthcare and AI. He has led cross-organizational teams through IPO-blocking programs, overhauled platforms handling $800M+ in revenue and 100M+ medical records, and scaled data pipelines to ingest multiple terabytes per day. Byron’s work spans deploying universal healthcare systems in East Africa to launching AI-powered clinics and clinical trials platforms in the U.S., delivering measurable business outcomes like rapid revenue and utilization growth. He combines full-stack engineering and ML/NLP research roots with operational rigor—cutting incident rates 10x and P99 latency 8x—while growing multiple high-performing teams. Notably, he architected offline-first systems for low-bandwidth national rollouts and built AI agents for healthcare at Sierra, showing a rare blend of product-first thinking and field-proven technical design.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Peking UniversityML/NLP Research Internship, ML/NLP Research Internship at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Sign languages
Github Skills (37)
android-app10
react8
datetimepicker7
driver7
serverless6
backport6
twilio-video5
fakeit5
adminlte5
jsr5
admin5
zero-configuration5
postgresql-database4
react-native4
golang4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
calblueprint/phc
Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
Connecting homeless in SF to essential services.
Contributions:252 commits, 95 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 5 months
essentialserverlesshomeless
Byronium/retweeted
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
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