Saya Zhang
Software Engineer at Spark Universe
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSaya Zhang is a Fullstack JVM software engineer with a decade of experience and 4+ years focused on building systems that serve over 9 million users. Based in the New York City area, she has driven backend and full-stack work for large-scale gaming and social platforms, notably growing Essential, a networking app for an open-world voxel sandbox, to a massive user base. She champions open source by contributing internal tooling outward and negotiates third-party compatibility to deliver bespoke solutions. Her background includes architecting cross-service authentication between distributed social networks and game worlds and operating community game servers with tens of thousands of concurrent players. Saya combines production-grade engineering with a hands-on approach to developer ecosystems and event-driven gaming features tested in high-profile environments like Amazon Prime Gaming and Twitch. Her Information Science degree from UNC Chapel Hill underpins a pragmatic focus on real-world applications and continual learning.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Science/Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Science/Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (3)
data-cleaning9
generative-ai6
llm5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SayaZhang/Roaming_Web
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
SayaZhang/uniflow
Dec 2023 - Apr 2024
Unified interface for data augmentation for LLM training
Contributions:51 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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