Damon Zhang
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Auckland with six years of professional experience building full-stack, scalable products and leading engineering teams. He specializes in MERN, Node.js, Flutter, GraphQL and Azure DevOps, and has a strong track record delivering IoT and mobile solutions—most recently architecting a smart home app combining Flutter frontend, Node/GraphQL backend and CI/CD automation. Damon blends hands-on coding with DevOps leadership, having established testing frameworks, containerized deployments with Kubernetes/Rancher, and automated pipelines that sped releases and cut manual effort. He is an early adopter of AI-assisted development, integrating tools like Claude, OpenAI and Grok to improve productivity and accelerate feature delivery. Known for mentoring peers and instituting Agile practices, he focuses on product-first design rather than feature-building, turning complex requirements into maintainable, user-centered solutions.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Shenyang Aerospace University
Github Skills (15)
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heatmap4
bezier3
graph3
css3
react-native-charts3
react3
contribution-graph3
pie-chart3
react-native3
line-chart2
charts2
javascript2
expo2
react-native-chart-kit1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Damon-Zhong/BetterBiz
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:34 PRs, 68 pushes, 37 branches in 14 days
Damon-Zhong/Workout-Tracker
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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