Scott Zhu
Princ Software Apps Engineer at Yahoo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Zhu is a Principal Software Apps Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of professional iOS focus and 14+ years in software engineering, known for shipping consumer apps used by millions and repeatedly featured by the App Store. He has driven major product launches at Yahoo Mail (commerce and inbox experiences producing dramatic revenue growth), led mobile engineering for Art.com and Vigo’s smart-glasses prototype, and improved app ratings and engagement at Agoda and others. Scott builds his own successful apps—Find Bluetooth, DMV Test, Home Time—that have helped hundreds of thousands of users and earned thousands of five-star reviews. He maintains a popular open-source iOS charting library (600+ stars) and a strong Stack Overflow reputation, signaling both technical depth and community impact. Comfortable across product, architecture, performance tuning, and CI/testing, he combines hands-on development with code review and mentorship at scale. A background in embedded drivers and feature-phone game tooling reveals an ability to move between low-level systems and polished consumer interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7 at University of San FranciscoBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at Zhejiang University of Technology
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
8,391reputation
1.1mreached
33answers
24questions
android-studio
top-5%
autolayout
top-1%
xcode
top-1%
ios
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
ios10
charts10
ui-design10
chartjs10
autolayout10
uid10
xcode10
front-end-development10
android-studio9
uikit9
swift9
storyboard6
uibutton6
android6
github6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zhuhuihuihui/EChart
Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
iOS/iPhone/iPad Chart, Graph. Event handling and animation supported.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:55 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development of an iOS charting library. The commits demonstrate the creation of UI components, specifically view controllers, and views related to a column chart. Code changes include the implementation of fundamental chart elements, data handling, and user interaction features. The user also worked on various aspects of the chart's styling.
ipadanimationchartgraph-chartiphone
zhuhuihuihui/EPhotoKit
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 10 months
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