David Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at Gem
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of full-stack experience, focused on TypeScript, React, Node, and GraphQL, currently building product at Gem in San Francisco. A University of Waterloo software engineering graduate, he progressed from intern roles to senior engineer within the same company, demonstrating fast ramp-up and strong domain ownership. He excels at shipping customer-facing features and backend services, bridging product needs and technical execution. Notably, his career path shows a consistent pattern of iterative growth through internships at startups and research environments, giving him versatility across architectures and team sizes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (72)
editor9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
horizontal-timeline9
vscode9
visual-studio8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
js-client7
slideshow6
reorder6
jsonata6
react6
node-api5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dvd-z/shuffly
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
🔀 Spotify app to reorder your playlists in-place: http://dvd-z.github.io/shuffly
Contributions:51 PRs, 133 pushes, 48 branches in 2 years 9 months
placereactjavascriptspotifyreorder
dvd-z/two-across
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
🔲 Crossword client that scrapes online sources for grids.
Contributions:9 PRs, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
crosswordgridsscrapeszealscraping
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