Walter Fan
Senior Software Engineer at Zoom
Hefei, Anhui, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Fan is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience focused on real-time collaboration, WebRTC, and media frameworks, currently building developer-facing features at Zoom. He spent much of his career at Cisco/WebEx driving WebRTC SDKs, scalable SRTP libraries, call-flow engines and telephony platforms, combining hands-on full-stack development with system architecture and product ownership. Based in Hefei, China, he blends low-level media pipeline expertise (GStreamer, MDD) with backend and platform design, and enjoys researching design patterns that make distributed collaboration systems robust. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he writes poetry alongside code, reflecting a creative bent that informs clear, maintainable designs.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Information Management, Bachelor, Computer Information Management at University of Science and Technology of ChinaComputer Control, Computer Control at Hefei University
Github Skills (8)
webrtc7
management6
uml5
monitoring5
prometheus4
devops4
gstreamer3
vscode2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
walterfan/snippets
Jun 2015 - Feb 2023
snippets
Contributions:13 PRs, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
vscodesnippets
walterfan/webrtc_note
Dec 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:161 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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