May
Software Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorMay Z is a seasoned software engineer and technical manager with 11+ years building everything from embedded firmware and on-device diagnostics to full-stack web and mobile applications. She has led cross-functional teams and multi-million-dollar programs at Amazon that scaled Alexa to millions of users—extracting 400+ APIs from a monolith and orchestrating peak-day readiness across 250+ staff—while still shipping hands-on React Native and backend code. Comfortable in C/C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, and Python, she blends deep systems experience from Qualcomm’s wearable platform with product-facing UX work at FiscalNote. Pragmatic and data-driven, she’s known for rescuing high-risk programs under tight deadlines and for creating tooling and dashboards that surface critical operational insights. Based in Washington, D.C., she pairs technical breadth with program-level rigor and a continual appetite for learning and practical impact.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
29reputation
175reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (3)
ember-data6
emberjs6
javascript6
Github contributions (4)
mzhai/website
Dec 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
mzhai/ical-generator-test
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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