Summary
Guangshuo Zang is a pragmatic software engineer with about a decade of experience building reliable APIs and payment systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven large projects end-to-end—from designing fee engines and bulk payout pipelines at Chipper Cash to leading full-stack initiatives at Smile Identity and Promptfoo—while improving system reliability through thoughtful re-architecture. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product and engineering, he has repeatedly partnered with cross-functional teams and mentored junior engineers to accelerate delivery. His background spans high-scale ad and payments platforms at Facebook and Visa, and includes a master’s in computer engineering from Boston University, reflecting strong fundamentals alongside product-focused execution. Notably, he has a track record of translating complex business requirements into robust, testable systems and has shipped the first web frontend and key backend primitives at multiple companies.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Shandong University
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Chinese