Summary
Gary Zhao is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience advancing through engineering roles at ServiceNow. He combines a solid academic foundation in mathematics and computer science from UC San Diego with hands-on expertise across software development and quality engineering, having progressed from QA to senior and now staff-level engineering within the same enterprise. Gary is comfortable operating at the intersection of reliability and feature delivery, helping scale complex systems and mentoring peers through technical leadership. His background includes research experience in astrophysics, reflecting a data-driven, analytical approach to problem solving that informs his engineering decisions. Colleagues describe him as motivated and eager for new challenges, with a track record of turning rigorous analysis into practical, production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego