Steven Zhu
Software Engineer II at Electronic Arts (EA)
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Zhu is a Software Engineer II with 10 years of experience building performant, cloud-native systems across finance, gaming, and energy sectors. He blends backend expertise in Java and Scala with hands-on experience in distributed systems (Kafka, Akka, HDFS/HBase), data serialization (Avro), and AWS infrastructure automation to deliver measurable performance gains and tighter deployment workflows. At S&P Global he accelerated orchestration and event processing, cutting latency and data transfer while reintroducing source-controlled NiFi practices, and now contributes to gameplay leaderboards at Electronic Arts. Comfortable across full-stack concerns—having rebuilt UIs with Vue/Electron and optimized memory profiles—he pairs pragmatic engineering with CI/CD and TDD discipline. Based in Greater Vancouver, he continuously explores new tooling and languages to expand his developer toolkit.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia Electrical and Computer Engineering
Github Skills (5)
stock9
opengl7
war4
jar4
server2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kaito1410/AutoDD_Rev2
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
An improved version of the original AutoDD
Contributions:1 review, 64 commits, 50 PRs in 1 month
openglstockstocksimproved
kaito1410/kaito1410.github.io
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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