Summary
Henry Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across CI/CD, e-commerce, and large-scale cloud services. He has driven core platform work at CircleCI—designing APIs, improving observability for critical-path metrics, and mentoring teams—and now advances cloud tooling at Archera. Comfortable across Clojure, TypeScript, Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, and PostgreSQL, he pairs backend systems expertise with front-end initiatives from his past React/Redux work. His career spans consumer-facing services at Amazon (Alexa Shopping) and high-traffic e-commerce at Walmart Canada, showing a knack for translating product needs into scalable microservices. Henry also brings a strong data and BI background from roles at TD Asset Management and Bell, which informs his pragmatic approach to observability and performance. He studied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, a foundation that complements his systematic thinking and attention to measurable engineering impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese