Steven Zhao
Senior Software Engineer at Block
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building fintech and crypto products, currently working on Bitcoin-focused engineering at Block/Cash App in New York. He blends a commerce-and-computer-science background from UBC with hands-on roles as a founding engineer at Atomic.Finance and product-focused engineering at Shopify and Best Buy. Steven enjoys breaking things to find better designs, favoring pragmatic, resilient systems that scale in production. His work spans core payments, crypto infrastructure, and consumer finance features—bringing startup grit and large-company reliability to complex, regulated domains. Notably, he combines technical depth with business sensibility from his combined Commerce/CS degree, enabling cross-functional impact from code to product.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Commerce Combined Major in Business & Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Commerce Combined Major in Business & Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (174)
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
staging10
bottom10
bitcoin10
cryptography10
linux9
reanimated9
bottomsheet9
ratatui9
shell9
warp9
bash9
typescript9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zpv/car2go-autoreserve
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Automate Car2Go reservations
Contributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 months
automationreservations
zpv/leetcode-solutions
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 27 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
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