Haowei Zhang
Manager, Web Development at Fortinet
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHaowei Zhang is a web development manager with 11 years of experience leading teams and serving as a hands-on tech lead at Fortinet, where he progressed from full-stack developer to manager of web development. He specializes in web applications, RESTful API design, server-side scripting and OpenConfig, with a strong background in building secure, high-concurrency systems dating back to an internship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Based in Burnaby, Canada, Haowei blends people leadership with deep technical ownership—mentoring engineers while still contributing code and architectural direction. He has a dual Chinese and Canadian academic foundation in computer science from Zhejiang University and Simon Fraser University, which informs his pragmatic approach to scalable, secure enterprise software. Non-obvious: his career shows a steady internal progression at a single global cybersecurity company, signaling both domain expertise and proven delivery in high-stakes product environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Zhejiang UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (13)
angularjs9
angular7
javascript7
fortigate3
aws2
lambda2
aws-lambda1
storage1
automation1
serverless1
fabric1
cloud-storage1
security1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fortinet/openconfig-public
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Repository for publishing OpenConfig models, documentation, and other material for the community.
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push in 2 months
publishingopenconfig
HarveyZhang/leetcode
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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