Robert Zhao
Software Engineer at X
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Zhao is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently based in Palo Alto and building product-facing features at X/Twitter after a sequence of Android-focused roles at Tinder. He has deep hands-on experience migrating large apps to Jetpack Compose, shipping accessibility-friendly components, and prototyping server-driven UI patterns that improve maintainability and developer productivity. Robert also has applied systems and cloud skills—implementing hybrid cloud sync pipelines and automating air-gapped cluster provisioning—demonstrating comfort across mobile, backend, and infrastructure domains. While at Cornell he supported CS courses as a teaching assistant, mentoring teams and guiding students through functional programming and UNIX tooling, reflecting strong communication and coaching abilities. Known for tackling both engineering design and operational automation, he brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to shipping robust features at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma (Summa Cum Laude with honors), High School Diploma (Summa Cum Laude with honors) at Summit High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell Engineering
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
evantzhao/evantzhao.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
scalog/scalog-operator
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 months
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