Kaiqing Zhang
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiqing Zhang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling backend systems for large consumer platforms, including Shopee and ByteDance/TikTok. He has five years of direct industry experience delivering high-throughput Golang and Python services for e-commerce and global payments, with notable work on TikTok Shop and Shopee product platforms. Holding dual master’s degrees in Computer Science and Management from UIUC, he blends deep technical skill with strategic product thinking. Kaiqing moves between hands-on system design, implementation, and quality control, often contributing to cross-functional architecture and performance optimizations. Now at a stealth startup in Singapore, he applies enterprise-grade engineering practices to early-stage product problems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex business needs into reliable, scalable backend solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Management, Master of Science - MS Management at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Hangzhou Normal University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
counting10
normal9
java6
nodejs4
electron2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ZKingQ/PingPingPang
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ZKingQ/hello-world
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
pythonfirst-repository
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