Chu Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChu Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with nine years of full-stack experience spanning YouTube, cross-platform systems, and developer infrastructure. A Columbia MSCS graduate and SYSU alumnus, Chu has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Google, focusing on testing and code health to improve large-scale product reliability. He contributes actively to open source—adding diverse RSSHub routes and improving Oppia’s front- and back-end test and validation infrastructure—demonstrating comfort across languages and stacks. Chu has built production systems before Google, including a campus marketplace that reached 20k+ users, and has research experience automating performance testing for databases. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends infrastructure-minded engineering with product-facing features and a knack for making complex delivery processes smoother.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen UniversityMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Columbia University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
cheerio10
javascript10
back-end-development10
typescript10
axios10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
backend10
angular10
testing9
rss9
python9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 20 commits, 32 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chu's commits demonstrate a focus on both frontend and backend development within the Oppia platform. They contributed to front-end development by adding and modifying validation services, fixing linting errors, and improving test descriptions in Angular components. Furthermore, the user worked on improving backend tests by updating audit jobs, splitting validator functions, and fixing test errors. The user's work spans different areas of the codebase, suggesting proficiency across the full stack.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
DIYgod/RSSHub
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
🧡 Everything is RSSible
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Chu implemented several new RSS feed routes for various websites, including nhentai, 看漫画, tits-guru, and javbus. They added support for features like search, categorization, and model/category listings. The contributions involve modifications to both the routes and related utility files. Furthermore, the user added a new data source for 中山大学 - 数据科学与计算机学院.
everythingrssrss-readertiktokwechat
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