Lusha Zhang
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLusha Zhang is a Lead Software Engineer in Seattle with 13 years building and leading large-scale distributed systems across streaming, cloud, and e-commerce domains. She has driven measurable business impact—most notably leading Twitch’s Ads Measurement team to enable brand lift surveys that unlocked roughly $170M/year in ad revenue—and has repeatedly re-architected platforms to shrink integration effort from months to weeks. Experienced as a tech lead at AWS and Disney Streaming, she blends deep hands-on coding in critical code paths with cross-team coordination, operational incident ownership, and mentorship of junior engineers. Her background spans Systems Manager, billing and compliance projects, and customer onboarding improvements, showing a knack for translating complex requirements into streamlined developer and customer experiences. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in entertainment technology, she brings a creative systems mindset evidenced by early work on WebGL game UIs and product-focused engineering. Colleagues describe her as highly communicative and effective at removing bottlenecks while scaling reliable systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science and Mathematics with Honors, B.S Computer Science and Mathematics with Honors at Syracuse UniversityMaster of Entertainment Technology Entertainment Technology, Master of Entertainment Technology Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
android-application3
java3
kotlin2
android2
Github contributions (2)
lushashaka/Carnnecting
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:71 commits in 1 month
social-networkcmusharingandroidkotlin
lushashaka/PersonalWebsite
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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