Mitchell Zhen

Lead Software Engineer at SpaceX

Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Mitchell Zhen is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of engineering experience, currently based in Sunnyvale and leading software efforts at SpaceX. He combines a dual academic foundation in EECS and Economics from UC Berkeley with hands-on systems and finance experience from roles at Citadel and Thomvest. His trajectory at SpaceX—from summer intern to Lead Engineer—highlights rapid progression and the ability to ship mission-critical software in high-stakes environments. Mitchell balances product-minded engineering with quantitative rigor, having contributed to global fixed income systems and research labs early in his career. Actively recruiting for full-time roles, he brings a rare blend of aerospace-grade reliability, trading-floor precision, and entrepreneurial curiosity.
code9 years of coding experience
job3 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Economics at University of California, Berkeley
languagesEnglish, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)

jupyter-notebook8
jupyter7
notebook7
interaction6
jupyterlab6
minecraft6
voice5
spigot4
server2
paper2
classification1
python1
machine-learning1
text-classification1
interpretable-machine-learning1

Programming languages (5)

JavaBatchfileJavaScriptJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

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tiilt-lab/MultiCraftClientJS

Jul 2021 - Aug 2021

Port of tiilt-lab/MultiCraftClient to the browser
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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tiilt-lab/MultiCraftClient

Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

Client for executing natural language commands within MultiCraft
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 6 months
natural-languageminecraftnatural
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Mitchell Zhen - Lead Software Engineer at SpaceX