Shimin Zhang
Contract Software Engineer at Charter Communications
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolShimin Zhang is a contract software engineer with 11 years’ experience building pragmatic web applications that prioritize cohesion, tests, and documentation for long-term maintainability. He’s been a core maintainer and architect for Charter’s Kite design system, standardizing frontend workflows, custom tooling, and visual regression pipelines to reduce bugs across large enterprise apps. Past work spans generative-AI features for accounting workflows at FloQast, network automation platforms at Itential, and interactive business simulations used in teaching and research at institutions like Harvard Business School and Georgia Tech. He combines strong full-stack skills (React, Node.js, Docker) with product-focused practices—engaging users for pain-driven development and mentoring teams through scaling. Based in Denver, Shimin pairs formal CS and accounting training with hands-on experience automating tedious processes (e.g., VBA and order-processing automation) to deliver measurable operational improvements. He’s equally comfortable shipping polished UI systems and instrumenting developer experience with custom linters, VS Code plugins, and DX tooling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS Accountancy, MS Accountancy at Baruch CollegeMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBronx High School of Science
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
san8
in-progress7
decoder5
encoder-decoder5
encoder5
raml4
api3
wadl3
blueprint3
seq2seq2
api-blueprint2
javascript2
machine-translation2
tensorflow2
dom2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JohnSZhang/JohnSZhang.github.io
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
JohnSZhang/San-Francisco-in-Progress
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
in-progressmappinghousingsan-franciscosan
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