Can Zhang
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Nextdoor
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCan Zhang is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms, currently leading News Feed UX and site-abuse teams at Nextdoor in Irvine. He has managed cross-functional teams of up to 16 engineers across backend, web, and mobile, driving a 25% increase in feed views and a 10% rise in contributions while improving feed startup time by 20%. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and people management, he develops technical leads, delegates operational responsibilities, and steers product roadmaps for high-traffic surfaces that generate the bulk of company revenue. His background ranges from TDD-heavy backend work at Wave to automated testing and large data migrations, and he holds an MSc in Computer Science with a focus on cryptography from the University of Toronto. Less obvious: he has a track record of evolving content distribution models (engagement→virality) and stepping into fraud-detection and abuse response leadership as product needs broaden.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Trivia memorization, High School Trivia memorization at Zhengzhou No.1 High SchoolMaster Computer Science - Cryptography, Master Computer Science - Cryptography at University of Toronto
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
on-the-fly9
linting6
socket-io6
jedi6
python5
websocket4
autocomplete4
linter4
peer-to-peer4
webrtc4
revit-api4
javascript3
markdown3
encryption3
evernote2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
can-z/pickup
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:64 reviews, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
waveaccounting/event-sourcing-example
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 days
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