James Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Zhang is an experienced software leader with 11 years of building scalable, user-facing products and APIs, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after leading engineering teams at Notion and Stripe. He has shipped high-impact features from greenfield consumer-facing products—Notion Calendar and Notion’s first product outside the core app—to critical infrastructure like Stripe Checkout and Billing that enabled hundreds of thousands of businesses to accept payments and subscriptions. As an engineering manager he’s grown and led cross-functional teams (6–9 engineers) to deliver launches measured by DAU/engineer impact and drove operational improvements around safer deployments and rigorous code review. Earlier, he co-founded The Beat Drop and scaled consumer apps to tens of millions of users, and at Wistia he built large-scale data pipelines and WebGL analytics. Based in the NYC metro area, he blends startup-founders’ product intuition with enterprise-grade execution, and tends to focus on shipping simple integration experiences that dramatically reduce customer effort.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorCornell University
Stackoverflow
4,443reputation
814kreached
21answers
41questions
Github Skills (200)
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
modification10
slider-component10
ios10
react-native10
react10
app-framework9
apple-pay9
mobile-development9
authentication9
xbox9
google-pay9
widgets9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamesfzhang/auto-save
Jan 2016 - Jul 2019
Automatically saves the current file after every modification
Contributions:7 releases, 3 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 6 months
modification
jamesfzhang/react-wavy
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
canvaswaveform
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