Summary
Lois Z is a founder and engineering leader based in San Francisco who blends systems-level thinking with fast-moving product builds across runtimes, bundlers, and edge delivery. With four years of focused engineering experience, Lois has co-founded and led startups that shipped micro-frontend runtimes, runtime OTA updates for React Native, and a voice-AI with a self-learning policy engine backed by YC and A16Z. A prolific open-source contributor and speaker, Lois has presented on bun, Vite, Rollup, Rspack/webpack and bundler troubleshooting at international conferences including Supabase, NX Summit, and React Summit finalist stages. Their background also includes deep interest in databases—MySQL and Postgres internals—and early career roles spanning strategy, M&A, and hospitality that surface in pragmatic product design and customer empathy. Currently running The San Francisco Voice Company, Lois combines research-level curiosity with founder grit to tackle "impossible" infrastructure problems. Unobvious fact: they pair frontend/runtime expertise with hands-on experience in database indexing and query planning, allowing them to optimize both client and storage layers.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma ESL, Diploma ESL at University of La Verne
Other French, Other French at Alliance francaise de macao
Master of Science - MS Behavioral Finance, Master of Science - MS Behavioral Finance at Henley Business School
Master of Science - MS Behavioral Finance, Master of Science - MS Behavioral Finance at University of Reading
Bachelor's Degree Hospitality Administration/Management, Bachelor's Degree Hospitality Administration/Management at Macau University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese, teochow, Chinese