Darren Zhu
Software Engineer at Magic Leap
Ontario, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Zhu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building performant JavaScript applications across front-end and back-end stacks, currently contributing at Magic Leap from Ontario, California. He specializes in React, Redux, TypeScript, Node/Express, and cloud deployments (AWS/GCP), with a track record of improving performance, reducing API roundtrips, and designing offline-capable PWAs. Darren is the co-creator of React Blue, an open-source web and Electron prototyping tool that uses D3 for visualization and showcases his emphasis on developer ergonomics and maintainable state management. He has migrated legacy PHP systems to Node.js, implemented Redis caching to cut latency, and built CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments. Known for pragmatic, test-driven engineering—Jest/Enzyme for unit testing—he pairs deep implementation skills with product-minded UX improvements.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Chinese, Korean, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
87reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (5)
prototyping7
py2neo6
react5
visualization5
javascript5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Joodongri/react-blue
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:26 PRs, 47 pushes, 6 branches in 26 days
bkmorgan-scratch/dinder
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:15 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
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