Jessica Zhang
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJessica Zhang is a software engineer with eight years of experience applying computer science fundamentals to build efficient, adaptable solutions at Microsoft and in research-driven internships. Her background spans systems-level C/C++ development, tooling and test automation (Jenkins, JIRA, REST APIs), and bioinformatics software for de novo genome assembly, demonstrating both production-grade engineering and algorithmic rigor. She moves comfortably across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments and has contributed to published tooling for genome scaffolding and alignment liftover. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, Jessica blends practical debugging and cross-language fluency with a research mindset that surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs between scalability and correctness.
8 years of coding experience
University of British Columbia
Github Skills (11)
genome-assembly10
computational-biology8
genome8
bioinformatics8
assembly7
genomics7
bloom-filter6
pipeline6
scalable4
scaffold2
chromium1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jesszha/swavor
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jesszha/nwhacks-webapp
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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