Peter Zhao
Senior Software Developer at VNDLY Inc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Zhao is a Senior Software Developer with 16+ years of experience building reliable, test-driven systems across domains from healthcare supply chains to enterprise integration. He joined ThoughtWorks in 2006, where he honed Agile and XP practices—pairing, collective code ownership, CI/CD and TDD—before moving to VNDLY to continue delivering production-grade software. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, he has implemented features and tests across front-end and back-end stacks (Java/Groovy, C#, Ruby, JavaScript) and contributed to open-source projects like OpenBoxes, improving inventory and supply-chain functionality for healthcare. Peter is passionate about clean, auto-test-covered code and improving delivery processes to make teams more agile and reliable. He brings a background in teaching and cross-cultural engineering experience, which he leverages to mentor teammates through pairing and knowledge sharing. Based in Toronto, he combines deep technical craft with a long-standing commitment to continuous learning and practical Agile leadership.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Communications, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Communications at Beijing Jiaotong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
inventory-management-system10
testing10
grails10
groovy10
spock10
inventory-management10
health9
ehealth9
medical9
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
javascript7
html6
css5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openboxes/openboxes
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
OpenBoxes is a supply chain management system designed to manage inventory and track stock movements for healthcare facilities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the OpenBoxes project by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and enhancing existing functionalities. Their work involved modifications to both front-end (GSP views, likely Grails) and back-end components (Groovy, potentially Grails), including adding product specifications, creating inventory items, and building user interfaces. They also performed testing using Geb/Spock framework, and cleaned up build configuration file.
shipment-trackinginventorymanagement-systemmovementssupply-chain
peterzhao/ju
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 8 months
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