Shu Zhang

Canada

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Shu Zhang is a software engineer and University of Waterloo mathematics undergraduate with 14 years of hands-on experience contributing to both front-end and back-end codebases. They have improved performance and maintainability in production systems—optimizing database queries in the MarkUs grading platform and tightening JS docs and linting across the high-profile AMP project. Comfortable fixing tricky bugs and modernizing legacy code (e.g., migrating Ruby debugger usage), Shu combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for code quality and developer ergonomics. Based in Canada, they bring a rare mix of deep bug-fixing discipline and open-source collaboration experience that helps teams ship reliable, well-documented software.

14 years of coding experience

University of Waterloo

Github Skills (16)

html10

testing10

amp-html10

javascript10

rails10

front-end-development10

ruby-on-rails10

ruby10

ampl9

yaml9

form-data9

google-amp9

debug9

unit-testing9

debugging9

Programming languages (7)

JavaCSSC++JavaScriptHTMLRubyPython

Github contributions (5)

ampproject/amphtml

May 2017 - Apr 2022

The AMP web component framework.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:16 reviews, 54 commits, 58 PRs in 4 years 11 months

Contributions summary:Shu primarily contributed to the AMP project by addressing JavaScript documentation and linting issues, and improving the overall code quality. They fixed indentation errors in JsDoc comments, rectified linting errors in instance variable declarations and optional argument annotations, and updated the project's codebase. These modifications show a focus on improving code maintainability and adherence to style guidelines.

web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component

MarkUsProject/Markus

May 2014 - Sep 2014

Git repository of MarkUs

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:77 commits in 4 months

Contributions summary:Shu primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the MarkUs application. They addressed issues related to annotation comment updates, YAML parsing errors, and warnings generated by assert_select. They also improved the performance of grader-group assignments by optimizing database queries. Additionally, they updated the codebase to use byebug instead of debugger for Ruby 2.

git-repositorymarkdownmarkus

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