Summary
Stan Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 6 years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computational Simulation from the University of Utah, now building scalable platform services at Adobe after leading backend architecture at Cornerstone OnDemand. He blends deep data engineering and analytics expertise—developed at Facebook and USANA—with strong cloud-native skills in AWS, .NET Core, Java, Python, and distributed systems. His background in computational materials research translates into a methodical approach to performance-sensitive systems and algorithmic problem solving. Notably, he has shipped predictive SaaS products that combine ML pipelines with asynchronous microservices and has published peer-reviewed research from his academic work. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs rigorous research training with practical experience designing search frameworks, workflow engines, and large-scale ETL and data pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
BS Materials Science and Engineering, BS Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University