Summary
Jingning Zhang is a software development engineer at Apple with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, automation testing frameworks, and data-driven NLP systems. She brings a rare blend of computational science and product instincts—holding an MS in NanoEngineering and a background in first-principles materials modeling while shipping user-facing platforms like pi-review.com and USTC iCourse.club. At Allianz she turned large, messy financial transcripts into production ETL and BERT-based sentiment pipelines, and she has a track record of turning prototypes into lightweight internal tools with Flask-backed UIs. As a founder and team leader she cares deeply about user impact, having spent hundreds of hours designing PI Review to help PhD students choose mentors. Known for clear communication and rapid learning, she pairs analytical rigor with hands-on implementation from database mapping to responsive front-ends. Outside work she channels the same focus into sea, whitewater, and surf kayaking.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Physics/Condensed Matter Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Physics/Condensed Matter Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English