Summary
Shangzhen Yang is a software engineer with nine years of development experience and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington, currently working at Stripe in Seattle. He brings strong full-stack chops—six years of professional front-end work and five years on the back end—having built production React/Vue services, browser extensions, and secure account systems that reached hundreds of thousands of users. At Fuzhou Retiehe he optimized architectures with edge computing and Memcached to support millions of daily HTTPS requests and cut load times by up to 40%. He has hands-on experience with real-time features (WebRTC, WebSocket), serverless backends, and CI/CD-driven robustness from internships and teaching assistant roles. As a TA he mentored dozens of student projects, translating industry best practices into approachable lessons, and he has a track record of shipping high-impact, user-facing systems. Pragmatic and performance-minded, he seeks summer 2024 software engineering opportunities where he can scale systems and mentor others.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Washington
Minor Informatics, Minor Informatics at University of Washington Information School
Chinese, English, Japanese, Spanish