Leon Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at Art of Problem Solving
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of hands-on experience building web and mobile products. He blends strong mathematical training from MIT with practical expertise in Python and full‑stack development, having shipped features across consumer mobile apps and complex web tooling. His recent work at Art of Problem Solving follows senior product engineering at Cruise, reflecting a track record of improving UX and developer workflows in high‑quality, production environments. Leon is comfortable across front-end frameworks, backend services, and client-server integrations, and he brings a problem‑solver’s mindset to design tradeoffs and performance concerns. Beyond coding, he leverages analytic instincts honed in early data roles and DoD math work to inform product decisions and instrumentation. Colleagues know him for precise, user-focused implementations that balance elegant math-driven solutions with pragmatic delivery.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
viewer6
react5
parse5
tooltip5
parser5
javascript4
typescript4
slp4
redux4
log-parser4
yaml4
parsing4
tooltips4
react-hooks3
realtime3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ycz/babblog-royale
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Babble Royale log parser and viewer
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
log-parserroyaleviewerparser-generatorparser
ycz/ssbm-website
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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