Daniel Zhang
Backend Engineer at Webflow
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Zhang is a backend engineer with 8 years of experience building production services and APIs, currently contributing to Webflow's backend platform from Old Toronto. He co-created Cruizor and maintains a GitHub presence (FadeZhanger), signaling a practical focus on shipping web products and tooling. His career spans fast-moving startups and scale-up environments including Prezo, Clutch, and Weave Travels, where he has repeatedly taken on end-to-end engineering responsibilities. Daniel combines a solid computer science foundation from Western University with hands-on backend engineering, favoring reliability and pragmatic design. Colleagues know him for quickly onboarding to new codebases and delivering usable features under tight timelines. He brings a maker’s mentality—equally comfortable iterating on product-facing services and refining developer-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Western UniversityWilliam Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute
Github Skills (122)
webview10
ui-components10
visual-studio10
game-development10
data-driven10
game-engine10
editor10
rust10
high-performance10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DanielHZhang/prettier-config
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
My personal prettier configuration for Javascript/Typescript development with sensible defaults.
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
sensibleeslintjavascriptjavascript-typescriptconfig
DanielHZhang/superbuffer
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
A simple way to serialize JavaScript objects into ArrayBuffers for high compression on the wire.
Contributions:8 releases, 65 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
javascriptcompressionserializejavascript-objectswire
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