Steven Zhang
Software Engineer at Stripe
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Zhang is a backend-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems and shipping end-to-end products. He has led teams and projects across startups and scale-ups, notably architecting a recommendation engine and last-mile logistics platform that together drove measurable business impact (20% of sales, +22% CTR, and significant per-package cost savings). Proficient in Java/Spring Boot, C#, Python, and cloud-native AWS services, he combines microservice design with practical DevOps and search/embedding stacks (OpenSearch, Qdrant). As a co-founder he built a serverless Flutter product for immigration workflows, showing he can translate business needs into scalable architecture and fast iteration. Based in Ontario and grounded in a Waterloo CS background, he pairs hands-on implementation with documentation and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term operational continuity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (31)
probot10
zap10
dynamic10
github-bot10
serverless10
nodejs9
github-issues8
github7
selectable6
voting6
thumbnails5
webapp5
herokuapp5
watermark5
web-application5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
steven-steven/steganographia
Jan 2021 - May 2021
an invisible digital watermark using Stegastamp
Contributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
watermark
steven-steven/electroninvoice
Oct 2020 - May 2024
Invoice App made with Electron
Contributions:3 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
javascriptinvoice-appelectroninvoice
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