Chen Zhang
Sr. Strategy & Business Analysis Manager
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Zhang is a strategic analytics leader with 10 years of experience blending engineering rigor and market-driven business strategy, currently serving as Sr. Strategy & Business Analysis Manager at DiDi in Beijing. He progressed from engineering roles at Cummins—including leading a 4-person systems team—to product and marketing strategy positions, giving him a rare cross-functional fluency across control systems, product planning, pricing, and mobility operations. At DiDi he has focused on car-hailing strategy, translating technical constraints into commercially viable solutions and measurable business outcomes. His background includes a CMU MS in Mechanical Engineering and an early startup cofounder stint in 3D printing, signaling both deep technical training and entrepreneurial curiosity. Chen also experimented with ML in a government internship to boost language-processing efficiency, an indicator of his applied-data mindset beyond pure analysis. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who pairs analytical precision with pragmatic business instincts to drive product and operational decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Automation, Bachelor of Science, Automation at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (33)
c-language10
io-uring10
storage10
industrial10
poppler10
rpc10
java9
machine-learning9
pdf-files9
pdf9
high-performance9
grpc8
bazel-rules8
proto8
nvidia8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhangyachen/zhangyachen.github.io
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:83 commits, 94 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
zhangyachen/ComputerArchitectureAndCppBooks
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
📚 计算机体系结构与C++书籍收集(持续更新)
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
chinesecpppdfpopplerjava
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