Jason Zhao
Principal Product Manager at Rica Recycling
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJason Zhao is a Principal Product Manager and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce and marketplace products from engineering and founder perspectives. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he led Jot through acquisition and now heads product at First American, combining hands-on technical fluency with go-to-market execution. He previously drove Roofstock’s retail marketplace and NFL All Day at Dapper Labs, and earlier contributed backend code to Shopify’s billing platform and the widely used shopify-api-ruby gem—adding usage charge and application credit support. As a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, he also runs Rica Recycling, an e-waste startup that refurbishes and resells electronics while coordinating Bay Area pick-ups. Jason blends product strategy, full‑stack engineering chops, and operational grit to turn complex payments and marketplace challenges into customer-facing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Software Product Management, Certificate Software Product Management at Product SchoolFull Stack Development, Full Stack Development at Dev BootcampUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
rspec10
shopify-api10
api10
test-unit10
apidoc10
testing10
version-control9
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-api-ruby
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
ShopifyAPI is a lightweight gem for accessing the Shopify admin REST and GraphQL web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 25 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the `shopify-api-ruby` gem by implementing and testing new features related to Shopify's API. Their work included adding functionality for the `UsageCharge` resource, which involved creating tests and modifying existing code to incorporate this new resource. They also added functionality for the `ApplicationCredit` resource. Additionally, the user bumped the gem version and made code updates involving hash syntax and regression tests.
adminrailshotel-bookingpolarisweb-services
ch33sybr3ad/RICA-website
Jun 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
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