Summary
Jack Zhao is a Biological Neural Network Engineer and software engineer with 10 years of experience building production-grade systems across startups and hyperscale companies. He has a broad polyglot background (C/C++, Go, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres/AWS) and a proven track record shipping data- and life-science platforms at companies like GRAIL, Color, Pachama and Betteromics. Jack combines low-level systems experience from early internships (Google, Microsoft) with modern cloud and ML engineering—most recently training biological neural networks at a stealth company after building a data-science AI agent. He excels at bridging research and production: turning algorithmic ideas into scalable services and UIs used in healthcare and environmental domains. Based in California and educated in Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, he brings rigorous problem-solving plus a knack for cross-disciplinary work that spans biology, AI, and full-stack engineering. An under-the-radar strength is his longevity working on privacy-sensitive, high-throughput systems (ads, testing, and genomics) where reliability and data integrity are critical.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science Combinatorics & Optimization, Bachelors Computer Science Combinatorics & Optimization at University of Waterloo