May Z
Software Engineer at FiscalNote, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMay 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
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Math Science and Computer Science Magnet Program, High School Math Science and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High SchoolB.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
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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