Summary
Howie Zhao is a software developer with 10 years of experience focused on full-stack development and data infrastructure, currently building experimentation platforms at Unity Technologies. He has a strong track record designing high-throughput advertising systems at MindGeek, where he used Google Cloud services, Java/Spring backends, and front-end frameworks to support billions of daily ad impressions. Comfortable across the stack, Howie pairs backend pipeline work (Dataflow, Pub/Sub) with pragmatic frontend tooling and performance improvements like ServiceWorker-driven CDN optimization. A McGill Computer Science graduate and proponent of open source, he combines production-grade engineering with a knack for automating repetitive workflows and surfacing actionable analytics from large-scale data.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colonel By Secondary School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at McGill University