Mengzhen Gao
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMengzhen Gao is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and cloud-native services. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP, SQL and frameworks like Vue and Angular, she has shipped production systems at Avidbots, Dialpad and now Instacart, often working across frontend, backend and infrastructure using GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Redis and observability stacks. A motivated project leader and collaborative engineer, she pairs pragmatic product focus with a strong academic grounding from Waterloo (MSc in Software Engineering) and a consistent track record of stepping up from junior web roles to senior engineering positions. Colleagues describe her as a lifelong learner who moves quickly between user-facing UI work and backend scalability concerns, and who brings a disciplined, metrics-oriented approach to shipping reliable features.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Communication Engineering, 87.83, Bachelor in Communication Engineering, 87.83 at Shandong UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 90.88, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 90.88 at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (55)
typescript10
angular-cli10
php-library10
minikube10
cli10
angular10
javascript9
kubernetes9
smtp9
email-validation9
mailbox9
attachment9
php9
go9
k8s9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mengzhen94/voting-app
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mengzhen94/blog-laravel
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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