Shanshan Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShanshan Zhu is a frontend-focused senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web applications and complex UIs, currently shaping product at Robinhood in San Francisco. She brings deep React/Redux expertise—having led frontend architecture redesigns and built 20+ complex interfaces—and pairs that with full-stack experience from startups to large platforms like Uber. Her background in data-heavy healthcare and personalized medicine at Syapse and research roles gives her a strong grounding in data visualization (D3, Highcharts) and rigorous, measurement-driven development. Early career work in neuroscience and a PhD-trained analytical mindset inform her ability to translate complex domain requirements into intuitive user experiences. She’s comfortable mentoring teams, shipping under tight timelines, and has a track record of rapid prototyping and production delivery across diverse tech stacks.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Berkeley summer course, Neuroscience data mining and modeling, Berkeley summer course, Neuroscience data mining and modeling at University of California, BerkeleyB.Sc., Life Sciences, B.Sc., Life Sciences at Peking UniversityPhD, Neuroscience, PhD, Neuroscience at The University of British Columbia
Chinese, English
Github Skills (129)
python10
cpp10
javascript10
robotics10
maps10
csharp10
deck-gl10
visualization10
php10
geospatial-analysis10
grpc9
data-visualization9
react-redux9
threejs9
ruby9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shanshanzhu/ProjectEuler
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
solvingeulerjavascriptnodejsproject-euler
shanshanzhu/resumeOnMap
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:105 commits in 1 month
map-apiapireactrequire-jsrequire
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