Dingfan Zhao
Software Engineer at Meta
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolDingfan Zhao is a seasoned software engineer with nine years’ experience building high-throughput backend systems across Southeast Asia, currently contributing at Meta from Singapore. He led end-to-end promotion services and a Flash Sale platform at Shopee, driving performance tuning, DB redesign, and a migration from monolith to microservices while mentoring junior engineers. His background includes internships at PayPal and Google Summer of Code work on a fintech chatbot, reflecting a mix of product-facing and developer-focused expertise. Dingfan holds both a BE (highest distinction) and an MS in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, and has international study experience at Hanyang University. Known for pragmatic engineering and a curiosity for new tech stacks, he balances hands-on performance optimization with scalable architecture decisions. An understated strength is his ability to translate business promotion requirements into resilient, low-latency services that serve millions of users.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Summer School Program, Engineering Technology, General, Satisfactory, International Summer School Program, Engineering Technology, General, Satisfactory at Hanyang UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
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Github Skills (57)
javascript10
java10
teammates10
google-cloud10
adapter10
banking10
angular10
cookbook9
finance9
css9
fintech9
chatbot8
apache8
oop7
nodejs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openMF/mifos-chatbot
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Chatbot and adapter to Apache Fineract
Contributions:61 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 months
chatbotfineractapacheadapter
dfz2019/dfz2019.github.io
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Repo for https://dfz2019.github.io/
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 3 years 1 month
chirpyjekyll
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