Gang Zhang is a seasoned technical expert and software architect with 11+ years of experience bridging research and industry to improve software engineering practices. Based in Shanghai, he has led architecture for large-scale telecom products, driven CI/CD and VCS migrations for multi-million-line codebases, and coached 50+ teams in agile, emergent design, and quality improvement. As an internal coach at Alibaba Group, he focuses on agile transformation and developer capability building while drawing on prior academic research and teaching in software engineering. His background combines hands-on architecture, process transformation, and pedagogy—a mix that helps teams adopt practical, evidence-based engineering methods.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physical Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physical Sciences at Shanghai Normal University
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