Lei Zhu
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Zhu is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems using Java, Python, and C, and a recent MS in Computer and Information Sciences from UIUC. He has delivered production-grade microservices and real-time data pipelines—at DiDi he designed a Spring Boot/Kafka system processing ~5M daily records that contributed to lower insurance costs and improved driver retention. Lei pairs strong backend expertise (JDBC pooling, CI/CD, testing) with modern frontend skills (React/Redux, Material-UI) from projects that boosted data extraction and cleaning efficiency by up to 60%. His background also spans applied ML and statistical modeling for financial risk, producing credit classifiers with ~95% accuracy. Based in Champaign, IL, he combines operational rigor and process improvement with a hacker’s curiosity—“stay hungry, stay foolish”—and a demonstrated ability to translate data into business impact.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, 3.7/4.0 at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (36)
jquery9
visual-design8
react-native-push8
react-native7
javascript7
wechat-mini-program7
vue7
wechat7
react7
react-router7
scrapy6
typescript6
zone6
page-builder6
crawler5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lei-zhu/Appworks
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:146 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
adam-zhu-1991/my-bot-test
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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