Nicole Zhu
Co-Founder at Menlo Research
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Zhu is a co-founder and engineer blending AI, robotics, and observability expertise from roles at Menlo Research, Google, Parity, and GOJEK across a five-year focused engineering career and broader product background. She pairs backend systems work in Go—contributing to notable Google Cloud and automation repos around logging, CI, and maintenance bots—with front-end documentation and UI work for offline LLM projects like Jan. Comfortable across research and production, she has shipped reliability improvements to Google Cloud client libraries and automation tooling while also scaffolding developer-facing docs and styling for open-source AI tools. Based in Singapore with MS and BS degrees from Stanford, she combines a hardware-aware mechanical engineering perspective with software and product instincts—an asset for robotics and embodied AI work. Notably, she’s contributed to debranding and refactoring efforts in major Google repos, demonstrating attention to polish, backwards compatibility, and operational robustness.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian
Stackoverflow
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440reached
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Github Skills (32)
error-reporting10
javascript10
maintenance10
probot10
testing10
css10
typescript10
gcp10
automation10
go10
google-cloud10
typescript-types10
golang10
logging10
docusaurus10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
menloresearch/jan
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:167 reviews, 161 PRs, 216 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicole's commits primarily focus on setting up and configuring the documentation site for the Jan project using Docusaurus. Their work includes scaffolding the initial Docusaurus structure, including the configuration file, homepage features, and various components, as well as styling the site's appearance through custom CSS. These contributions lay the foundation for a comprehensive documentation portal for the project. They also worked on a variety of styling and UI improvements.
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GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to improvements and updates related to logging within the Google Cloud environment using the Go programming language. Their work involved refactoring and debranding the use of Stackdriver in favor of Cloud Logging, and writing advanced log entries with HTTPRequest objects, demonstrating experience in structuring and formatting logs. They also addressed flakiness in tests and added a new feature for writing structured logs, thereby contributing to the reliability and functionality of the project's logging capabilities.
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