Fan Zhang
SRE II at Loblaw Companies Limited
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Zhang is an SRE II based in Old Toronto with nine years of engineering experience and a strong foundation from a Master of Engineering in ECE at the University of Waterloo. They bring cross-disciplinary experience from backend roles at a stealth AI startup and TradingFlow, systems administration for UW Cybersecurity Club, and product analytics and automation that cut repetitive work by 80% at New Oriental. Fan combines site reliability practices with backend development and a data-informed product mindset, having led automation, A/B testing, and dashboarding initiatives that measurably improved retention. As an INFJ-T, they focus on making systems and processes more efficient for others and enjoy learning diverse tech stacks across computer science fields. Currently driving reliability at Loblaw, Fan pairs practical hands-on engineering with a talent for translating user and business needs into operational improvements. An ability to move between product, data, and infrastructure roles signals strong potential for growing into cross-functional technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, 3.0, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, 3.0 at Hefei University of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 88.5/100.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 88.5/100.0 at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (15)
vimscript7
quickfix6
discord-bot5
neovim5
taskwarrior5
vim-plugin4
keybindings4
python3
vim3
tabline3
cpp2
statusline2
windows1
nvim1
directwrite1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
D3REKZHANG/poker-evaluator-api
Oct 2021 - Nov 2025
Blazing fast poker hand evaluator written in Go and C++. My take on a hashmap-based evaluation algorithm.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
golangblazingevaluationblazing-fasthand-evaluator
D3REKZHANG/fighting-game
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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