Kevin Zhang
Software Engineer at Highbeam
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zhang is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems across fintech, logistics, IoT, gaming, and Web3. He has led engineering efforts at Parallel Studios on AI, gaming, and Web3 projects and now contributes at Highbeam, combining backend services in Go/Python with React front-end work. At Wish and Thomson Reuters he shipped microservices and APIs that powered logistics and billing features, and he’s contributed to the popular open-source Rasa project by improving NLU test visualizations and tooling. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he bridges ML tooling, distributed services, and product-focused UX to deliver measurable impact. Trained in Machine Intelligence at the University of Toronto and pursuing an MS in CS at Georgia Tech, he pairs academic depth with a hands-on, ship-first mentality. An entrepreneur at heart, he also co-founded a media studio and has experience translating creative ideas into shipped products.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science (OMSCS), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (OMSCS) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIB Diploma OSSD Scholar (VPCI) HL Math HL English HL Chemistry SL Physics SL Economics SL French, IB Diploma OSSD Scholar (VPCI) HL Math HL English HL Chemistry SL Physics SL Economics SL French at International BaccalaureateBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Science with honours Machine Intelligence specialization Minor in Engineering Business, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Science with honours Machine Intelligence specialization Minor in Engineering Business at University of TorontoResearch Intern Molecular Dynamics, Research Intern Molecular Dynamics at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (12)
machine-learning10
nlp10
rasa10
python10
machine-learning-models10
plot10
testing10
matplotlib9
nlu9
bots8
googlebot8
chatbot8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 13 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the development and modification of plotting utilities and testing procedures within the Rasa framework. They introduced a new function, `plot_comparative_histogram`, to enhance the visualization of confidence distributions in NLU tests. These changes involved modifications to plotting and testing-related files to incorporate the new plotting capabilities and to improve the overall testing and evaluation process. Additionally, the user's work also touched on merging changes and tracker store updates.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
UTkzhang/hello-ece444
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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