Summary
Joey Zhao is a seasoned software leader with 10 years of experience, currently leading engineering at Zeller in Melbourne where he architects serverless, event-sourced payment systems and real-time WebSocket protocols. He blends hands-on engineering in TypeScript and Go with systems design—building CQRS/event sourcing pipelines, GraphQL/AppSync interfaces, and DynamoDB-backed queries over 50M+ transactions. Joey has a strong cloud-native pedigree from migrating monoliths to AWS microservices (ECS Fargate, Lambda) and setting up CI/CD, Pact contract tests, ELK monitoring and Terraform-managed infra. His background spans enterprise healthcare imaging frameworks to customer-facing mobile and desktop apps, reflecting deep full-stack and integration experience. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex financial and real-time requirements into resilient, observable services while mentoring teams on delivery practices. He also shares his work and portfolio publicly on GitHub and a personal site, signaling a pragmatic, transparent approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English