Minling Zhao
Associate Director Of Engineering 2
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinling Zhao is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling resilient backend systems for multiple consumer data brands, now serving as Associate Director of Engineering where she manages and mentors teams while remaining a hands-on contributor. She specializes in core platform services—Ruby on Rails frameworks, email infrastructure migrations, authentication flows, and production reliability—and has driven high-impact initiatives like migrating to Salesforce Marketing Cloud and implementing session logging with Cloudflare Workers. Comfortable translating product needs into technical roadmaps, she balances delivery cadence with observability and test-driven refactors to improve maintainability and uptime. Beyond engineering, she brings entrepreneurial instincts from running an online gift shop and freelancing in photography, a background that sharpens her customer-focused approach to product experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Biological Sciences, Biology, General, Biological Sciences, Biology, General at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolFull Stack Web Development Immersive, Full Stack Web Development Immersive at Flatiron SchoolNew York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Chinese
Github Skills (11)
campus8
modernizr8
feature-detection7
browser5
javascript5
css5
flutter4
flatiron2
ruby1
jruby1
mruby1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
minling/StudentDiscount
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
minling/minling.github.io
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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