Summary
Chaoyi Zha is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building user-facing and backend systems, currently working on Billing at Stripe after impactful product and growth work at Plaid. He has a track record of taking services from 0 to 1—designing a modular transactions enrichment pipeline—and running experiments that measurably improved OAuth conversion and error rates. Earlier roles span growth and monetization work at Quizlet, platform tooling at Microsoft and Okta, and product development for edtech at Top Hat, showing comfort across product, metrics, and infrastructure. A Duke Computer Science student with a minor in Environmental Sciences & Policy, Chaoyi combines data-driven iteration with pragmatic engineering to reduce user friction and boost enrollment and conversion. Based in the New York City area, he prefers building practical systems that directly make people’s lives easier and has repeatedly delivered measurable product lift.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Minor in Environmental Sciences & Policy, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Minor in Environmental Sciences & Policy at Duke University
Radnor Senior High School
Chinese, French, English