Kaiwen Zhang
Software Engineer at ByteDance
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiwen Zhang is a software engineer based in Beijing with over a decade of experience and three years focused on hands-on iOS development at major tech firms like ByteDance and Kuaishou. He holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology and combines mobile UI craftsmanship with low-level debugging expertise, evidenced by his work on an iOS backtrace logger that captures and symbolizes thread call stacks. Kaiwen also automates and optimizes developer environments—maintaining a macOS bootstrap script that provisions tools, syncs configs, and manages proxies—to streamline productivity for himself and teammates. Comfortable across app UI, runtime configuration, and system scripting, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to shipping reliable client software. Colleagues would describe him as an iOS-focused engineer who enjoys coding and improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
debugging10
objective-c10
debug10
ios10
bootstrap10
scripting10
mach-o10
autolayout10
homebrew10
script10
snapkit10
sh10
swift10
macos10
bootstra10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bestswifter/macbootstrap
Mar 2017 - May 2022
A bootstrap script for new Mac
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & macOS System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & macOS System AdministratorContributions:444 commits, 6 PRs, 363 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaiwen primarily focused on bootstrapping and configuring a new macOS environment using a shell script. Their contributions included installing essential tools and applications like Homebrew, iTerm2, and MacVim. Additionally, they implemented a system for managing and syncing various configurations, including zsh, Vim, and Git, and also designed scripts to set up proxies and manage system settings for improved productivity. This work demonstrates a focus on automating system setup and enhancing the developer workflow on macOS.
bootstrap-scriptmacmacosbootstrapshell
bestswifter/MySampleCode
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
这个项目用于存储我博客中的demo
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:104 commits, 4 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kaiwen primarily contributed to the `mysamplecode` repository by integrating UI components into the iOS application, including the use of SnapKit for autolayout. They added comments to existing code, and made modifications to the layout, page width, and other UI-related features. The contributions included enhancements to the user interface, as well as some modifications for run time configurations.
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