Lewin Gan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLewin Gan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend and ML-driven products, currently at Zendesk following Forethought’s acquisition. He was Forethought’s fourth full-time hire and has deep experience shipping production systems that help people be more effective, combining backend, machine learning, and full‑stack expertise from roles at Dropbox and earlier internships. Based in San Francisco and a UC Berkeley CS graduate, Lewin pairs product-focused engineering with an affinity for competitive programming and contest problem writing—skills that inform his pragmatic, algorithm-forward approach to system design. He’s also contributed to developer tooling and interview process design, reflecting a mix of hands-on delivery and hiring/mentorship impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
visualization10
modular10
charts10
svg10
d3js10
plottable10
react10
typescript9
data-visualization9
java8
async7
rq7
job-queue7
task-queue7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lewin/Berkeley-Programming-Contest
Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year
lewin/Algorithms
Jun 2013 - Oct 2019
Collection of Java Algorithms
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 5 months
datastructurejava-algorithmsjavadata-structures
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