Stephen Zhou is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech firms, currently contributing at Meta in New York. His career spans roles at Airplane, Benchling, WhatsApp, Amazon and Microsoft, showing a strong mix of product-oriented startup work and scalable engineering at hyperscale companies. He brings cross-domain expertise from biotech tooling at Benchling to real-time communications at WhatsApp, with a knack for shipping reliable systems under evolving requirements. A Columbia CS graduate, Stephen pairs rigorous academic training with practical mentorship experience early in his career as a TA and tutor. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and adaptable—equally comfortable debugging distributed services or driving feature delivery in fast-moving teams.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Columbia University
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