Justin Zhao
Software Engineer at SimplifyVMS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Zhao is a software engineer with 11 years of practical experience building cloud-native microservices using Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus) and Go, and deploying them with Docker and Kubernetes. Currently at SimplifyVMS, he blends backend systems work with hands-on infrastructure using AWS (ECR, EC2, RDS), Linux, and CI-friendly tooling. A recent University of Toronto graduate with interdisciplinary studies in psychology, economics, and statistics, he brings analytical rigor to system design and testing (JUnit, Postman, MyBatis). His GitHub focuses on network traffic analysis, reflecting a deeper interest in observability and low-level data flows beyond typical application code. Comfortable across languages from Rust and C++ to TypeScript and Python, he is equally at home optimizing databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB) and improving developer experience. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic engineering and curiosity-driven exploration of performance and security trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
Prospective Student, Xweek, Prospective Student, Xweek at Harvard UniversityHonours Bachelor of Science (HBSc), Psychology, Economic & Statistics, Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc), Psychology, Economic & Statistics at University of TorontoExchange, Exchange at Università degli Studi di Siena
Github Skills (41)
human-readable10
nfa10
matching10
regex9
regular-expression9
parser8
ansi8
high-performance8
pcre8
ansi-c8
atom-editor7
json7
live-preview7
json-parser6
plantuml6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zzqcn/dpdk
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
Data Plane Development Kit
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 7 months
development-kitplanedata-plane
zzqcn/zzqcn.github.io
Nov 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
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