Eddie Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEddie Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building large-scale consumer systems, currently working on Instagram and Threads messaging at Meta. He has progressed through roles across messaging, feed, ads measurement, and cloud teams, shipping features that span real-time conversation intelligence, direct messaging, and news feed experience. Eddie’s background includes product-facing work at Microsoft and rapid-growth mobile and backend contributions at Yelp, Zenefits, and Zynga, giving him a rare mix of growth experimentation and systems-level engineering. He’s comfortable architecting end-to-end solutions—APIs, real-time dashboards, and mobile workflows—and has led projects that reduced error rates and saved significant operational time. A Waterloo computer engineering graduate, he’s equally at home optimizing algorithms (games/real-time features) and scaling social products for millions of users. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who bridges product needs with durable, measurable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honors Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honors Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (17)
gridview7
tinder7
react5
annotation-processing5
annotations4
animation4
recyclerview4
listview3
android3
bind3
lists3
java3
kotlin2
swipeview2
annotation-processor2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Mrez95/Mrez95.github.io
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:268 commits, 161 pushes in 2 years
reactdemo-website
Mrez95/Pac-Man
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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