Tao Zhang is a senior full-stack and DevOps engineer with 9+ years building scalable web platforms across e-commerce, social media, gaming, and real estate. He blends hands-on front-end expertise in React/Vue and SPA performance tuning with back-end microservices, Kafka-driven pipelines, Redis caching, and AI-assisted moderation systems. Tao has led analytics and high-concurrency architectures that supported 10M+ users and has practical cloud migration experience moving game infrastructure to Kubernetes across AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Azure. Comfortable as a freelancer and team lead, he pairs product-focused engineering with infrastructure automation and observability. Unusually for a senior developer, he’s proficient across the full stack and DevOps toolchain and has integrated OpenAI/Hive AI models into production moderation workflows. Based in Philadelphia, he now contributes to the Symbols platform while remaining open to collaboration on high-impact, large-scale systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Sichuan University
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