John Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Optus
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJohn Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading full-stack systems across Australia and China, currently based in Sydney. He progressed rapidly from a .NET graduate at Suncorp to senior technical lead roles at CPIC, where he combined core development with CI/CD, dev-ops and automation to improve team performance and system stability. His recent roles span cloud-native and enterprise stacks—Java, Spring, Docker, React/Angular and microservices—plus practical server configuration and troubleshooting that teammates rely on in incidents. An active contributor to embedded tooling, he enhanced the Cortex-M VS Code debug extension with ST-Link support and live memory views, reflecting a rare mix of backend, front-end and low-level embedded debugging skills. Colleagues describe him as a technical mentor who pairs hands-on delivery with process improvements to scale engineering productivity.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
debugging10
embedded10
gdb10
debug10
vscode-extension10
sys10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Marus/cortex-debug
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Visual Studio Code extension for enhancing debug capabilities for Cortex-M Microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 39 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to enhancing the debugging capabilities of the Cortex-M microcontroller extension. This involved adding support for the ST-Link debugger, including the implementation of an `stlink-gdb` debugger type and integrating the ST-Link backend. Additionally, the user improved the memory view functionality by adding selection highlighting and making it live, updating its content during debug events.
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RuiChen08/dacapobench
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:15 PRs, 34 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
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