Timmy Zhu
Software Engineer - Analyst at BlackRock
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTimmy Zhu is a software engineer and analyst based in the New York City area with three years of professional experience building developer-focused tools and enterprise software. He’s transitioned from accounting and audit roles into software, bringing a strong quantitative and compliance-minded perspective to engineering work at Swell, Global Infrastructure Partners, and now BlackRock. Timmy has hands-on experience building an Electron-based API development tool integrating HTTP/2, GraphQL, SSE, WebSockets, and gRPC, showing a knack for developer UX and complex protocol integration. Comfortable in both startup and large-firm environments, he blends product-focused engineering with attention to auditability and robustness. He publishes a portfolio at timmyzhu.dev that highlights this hybrid background and practical projects.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting at Baruch CollegeCoursework towards Dual Degree, Accounting and Computer Science, Coursework towards Dual Degree, Accounting and Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Chinese
Github Skills (15)
endpoint10
server-sent-events9
sse9
postman9
api8
endpoints8
streaming-api8
testing8
streaming8
rest7
monitoring7
graphql6
websocket6
grpc6
trpc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Panda-Whale-AllPacka/AllPacka
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:9 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
timzhu15/adopt-me
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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