Ji Zhang
Senior Staff Engineer at Zendesk
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJi Zhang is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing systems at Zendesk. Rising through multiple engineering levels since 2017, he blends hands-on software craftsmanship with technical leadership across backend services and platform initiatives. His background includes internships and early engineering roles at PayPal and regional firms, giving him practical exposure to payment and enterprise environments. Ji is pragmatic and product-focused—he emphasizes shipping impactful features and improving developer workflows. Outside work he curates a personal site (zhangjay.me) that reflects a do-something, action-oriented engineering ethos. His career trajectory at a single major SaaS company highlights deep institutional knowledge and the ability to drive long-term technical direction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (33)
chrome-plugin9
datadog8
tracer8
opentracing8
connect8
middleware8
nodejs8
http-proxy-middleware7
fastify7
javascript7
proxy7
websocket7
react7
polka6
collaboration6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bamboo3250/CS3249Project
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 issues in 1 year 6 months
a13576606825/dbManager-jjsea
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
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