Oliver Zhang
Senior Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Canada
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Top SchoolOliver Zhang is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 12 years of hands-on experience building user-facing interfaces, REST APIs, and cloud-integrated backend systems for enterprise products. He pairs a strong academic foundation—a Combined Honours BSc in Computer Science and Statistics from UBC and a Professional Master's from UW—with practical expertise in Azure services (Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB), OData/Microsoft Graph APIs, and frontend accessibility. At Microsoft he led the end-to-end design of the Partner Center Security Center and modernized delegated admin workflows while balancing performance, cost, and compliance considerations. Beyond product work, he has a long record of teaching and curriculum development—mentoring interns, serving as a multi-course TA, and running outreach curricula for underprivileged students—demonstrating a knack for translating complex concepts into accessible learning. He also brings data-focused instincts from prior data science and analytics internships, with experience streaming and processing large partner-profile datasets to inform product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Business and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Business and Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Commerce - BCom, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom at UBC Sauder School of Business
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Github Skills (12)
trading9
ifttt8
python8
telegram7
docker6
harbor6
docker-registry5
prometheus5
go3
distributed-systems3
container3
tinymce-plugin3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
olzhang/olzhang.github.io
Oct 2017 - May 2026
Contributions:16 pushes in 8 years 8 months
olzhang/udemy-course-notes
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
notes for some udemy courses
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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