Simon Zhang
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Zhang is a seasoned data and analytics executive with over 20 years of cross-industry experience who currently leads data strategy and AI adoption as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Mercury Insurance. He co-founded and scaled GrowingIO into a $25M ARR analytics platform serving 2,000+ enterprise customers and processing up to 160 billion behavioral events per day, a feat recognized by Gartner and EY. Previously at LinkedIn he built analytics products and teams that materially accelerated revenue growth—his "Merlin" initiative and AutoML work drove multi-fold improvements in sales and subscription performance. Simon blends deep technical chops (from building ETL, AutoML, A/B testing and large-scale event pipelines) with operator-level experience in product, GTM and fundraising, culminating in a successful acquisition in 2022. Unusually, his career began in medicine—he performed 300+ brain tumor operations—which contributes to a disciplined, outcome-focused approach to high-stakes decision making. Based in Burlingame, CA, he is a pragmatic leader who scales data teams and infrastructure to translate analytics into measurable business value.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BM Medicine, BM Medicine at Tianjin Medical UniversityMBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Baldwin Wallace University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
react10
ui-components9
typescript9
component-library9
heroicons7
svg5
html5-canvas5
grammar4
visualization3
data-visualization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gh2049/gio-design
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
A React UI library and GrowingIO Design System
Contributions:55 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years
reactgrowingioui-librarydesign-systemreact-ui
Guanghao2016/cnodejs-vue
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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