John Zhang
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Zhang is a software engineer with three years of professional experience building reliable full-stack and backend systems, currently contributing to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets at Microsoft. He combines cloud-scale backend C# work with front-end and SRE experience from previous roles, having driven a React migration, implemented async Rails modules, and automated deployment testing across Kubernetes and AWS. At Microsoft he shipped a global user-approval flow that reached 35K approvals per day and designed a VM distribution algorithm that improved fault-domain balance by ~30%, materially boosting reliability. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C#, Rails, Python, React/Vue), he also has a track record of mentoring teammates, leading cross-functional compliance projects, and improving security/performance through major upgrades. Based in the Twin Cities, he pairs practical product-minded engineering with experience shipping production systems that prioritize observability and graceful operations.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Albemarle HighBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Statistics at University of Virginia
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (18)
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
api10
sdk10
rest10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
azure10
csharp10
openapi10
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johnzhang-microsoft/azure-sdk-for-net
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
johnzhang-microsoft/azure-rest-api-specs
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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