Summary
Harry Zhu is a retired, data-driven software engineer with over two decades of experience designing and delivering enterprise server applications, e-commerce systems, and high-availability web services. He has led and built teams across the full stack—back-end, front-end, and database—engineering mission-critical systems at Broadcom, Altair, Oracle, and public-sector licensing platforms. Known for combining strong quantitative training (multiple master’s degrees in statistics, biometry, and computer science) with pragmatic engineering, he architected scalable automation and security features that saved hundreds of millions annually and protected IP in chip design workflows. Harry’s technical breadth spans Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP, React/D3 front ends, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases, and CI/CD/cloud deployment practices. He has a track record of turning one-off solutions into reusable, configurable platforms (e.g., multi-state licensing templates) and resolving stubborn infrastructure bottlenecks in large code repositories. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings rare domain depth in analytics-driven software and production-grade systems engineering.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Sun Yat-Sen University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Engineering at Central South University Forestry and Technology
Chinese, English, Japanese