Jack Zhou
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJack Zhou is a software engineer with 9 years of cross-disciplinary experience building multimedia, client-side, backend and automation solutions for companies like Intel, Ansys, Teradici (HP) and Arista Networks. He focuses on platform and performance work—shipping optimizations, automation pipelines, and tooling that turn research prototypes into maintainable products. Comfortable across C/C++ and Python, he’s contributed to video codec integrations, GPU/GUI client work, and DevOps pipelines that eliminated repetitive developer toil. Beyond engineering, Jack mentors students and tutors STEM topics, and has a track record of enabling remote research operations during the pandemic. Based in Burnaby, BC, he blends technical rigor with a people-first mindset and the quirky ambition to “change the world one commit at a time.” An understated strength: he routinely translates research and legacy systems into production-ready workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Dogwood Diploma, Secondary School, Dogwood Diploma at École Secondaire Moscrop Secondary SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Psychology, with Distinction, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Psychology, with Distinction at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
linux10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
jam8
perceptual7
gitlab7
fusion7
video-quality7
eagle5
fractal5
feature-detection5
pytorch4
deterministic4
machine-learning4
playing4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jryzkns/ld49
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Thank you, good bye
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
jryzkns/love.unrequited
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Bittersweet wrapper over LÖVE :revolving_hearts:
Contributions:20 PRs, 62 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 5 months
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