Nathan Zhang
Platform Engineer - Frontend
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Zhang is a platform-focused front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications across TypeScript, C#, Kotlin, and Scala. Currently shaping platform and frontend delivery at Origin Energy, he leads epics, architects reusable boilerplates, and drives long-lived codebases that accelerate team velocity. His background spans major Australian tech teams (REA Group, carsales) where he balanced UI performance, backend integration, and testable architectures for customer-facing products. Comfortable across frameworks and cloud environments, he often crafts tailored business logic, analytics, and testing suites to close the loop from requirements to production. A regular speaker and meetup contributor, he also brings practical telecom and full-stack roots that inform pragmatic system design. Colleagues rely on him for durable front-end patterns and pragmatic leadership that keeps large apps maintainable as they scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Web & Internet Development Web & Internet Development, Diploma of Web & Internet Development Web & Internet Development at RMITBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Central South UniversityMaster of IT Information Technology, Master of IT Information Technology at Monash University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
react-apollo10
rest-api8
api8
api-client8
api-platform7
graphql6
curl6
grpc6
http-client6
apollo6
rest6
websocket6
react5
apollo-client5
styled-components5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lovedisaster/Fullstack_Node_React
Jul 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
lovedisaster/GraphQL_Apollo
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Node+GraphQL+Apollo+React+Styled-components
Contributions:2 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
reactreact-apollostyled-componentsstyledgraphql
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