Summary
Jason Zhu is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of hands-on experience progressing from desktop and help-desk roles into senior engineering and staff-level positions at Supermicro. He holds a master's in Computer Science (3.97 GPA) and has practical exposure to IoT, big data platforms, and stream processing from an internship where he built end-to-end prototypes using NiFi, Kafka, Spark, HBase, and Cassandra. Jason's background blends systems-level support expertise with production software engineering, enabling him to bridge operational realities and scalable system design. At Supermicro he advanced through engineering tiers rapidly, reflecting strong delivery and technical leadership on embedded and infrastructure-focused projects. Comfortable scripting and building tooling for reproducible environments (Docker, AWS, VM setups), he brings a pragmatic approach to reducing deployment friction. Colleagues would note his combination of support-rooted customer empathy and deepening architecture instincts as an asset for cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information System, 3.79, Computer Information System, 3.79 at De Anza College
Master's, Computer Science, 3.97, Master's, Computer Science, 3.97 at California State University-East Bay
Bachelor's, Information Management and Information System, Bachelor's, Information Management and Information System at Zhejiang Wanli University
English, Chinese