Katie Zhu
Product Manager at Instagram
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Zhu is a product manager and illustrator with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing products for companies like Instagram, Medium, The New York Times, NPR, and GOOD. Based in Oakland, she blends a computer science and journalism background from Northwestern with a creative practice whose work has been featured in The New Yorker and Vogue. At Instagram she leads cross-functional teams to translate editorial and design sensibilities into polished product experiences, drawing on early hands-on roles in news applications and interactive storytelling. She co-hosts and produces the Sweet and Sour podcast, exploring the Asian American female experience—an angle that informs her user-centered approach to inclusive product design. Comfortable toggling between pixels and product metrics, she brings a rare combination of editorial instinct, technical training, and a practiced visual voice to every project.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Journalism, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern UniversityInternational School of Beijing
Chinese
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
responsive10
html10
mobile-first9
api9
oauth9
medium9
javascript-framework8
policies4
mvc-architecture3
mvc2
nodejs2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ktzhu/stickybits
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 1 day
sweetandsourfm/feed
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:133 commits, 2 PRs, 122 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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