David Zhang
Software Engineer L4 at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zhang is a Software Engineer L5 at Google with eight years of experience building reliable, large-scale backend systems across ads, payments, and financial data platforms. A University of Waterloo CS and Wilfrid Laurier BBA finance double-degree candidate, he blends engineering rigor with product and finance fluency—valuable for monetization and integrity-focused systems. At Google he progressed rapidly from intern roles into senior engineering tiers, contributing to display ads creative serving infrastructure and experiment reliability. Past internships at Meta, Shopify, and Yahoo Finance show a pattern of shipping backend solutions for payments, billing, and market data. He also founded and operated a game server project in his teens, demonstrating early full-stack ownership and operational experience. Based in San Francisco, he combines strong systems engineering chops with an eye for fraud prevention and financial-product reliability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Finance, Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Finance at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (20)
backend6
backend-api6
spring-boot5
api5
spring5
wave4
java4
text-files4
react4
pulse3
kotlin2
python2
nodejs2
music2
rest-api2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CoderIntuition/web
Feb 2021 - May 2021
CoderIntuition React Web App
Contributions:61 commits, 20 PRs, 201 pushes in 2 months
reactjsreactreact-web
CoderIntuition/CoderIntuition-Web-Old
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
CoderIntuition React Web App
Contributions:1 review, 82 PRs, 205 pushes in 5 months
reactjsreactreact-web
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