Wanlong Zhang
Engineering Manager at ByteDance
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWanlong Zhang is an engineering manager and full-stack software leader with 12 years of experience building large-scale web and microservice architectures, currently leading a SaaS product for car dealers and manufacturers at ByteDance. He has deep expertise in LAMP backend systems, distributed architecture, and has driven search and infrastructure initiatives across Baidu and ByteDance, including rebuilding development models and architecting SaaS platforms. A pragmatic hands-on manager, he blends day-to-day coding—evidenced by contributions to the popular Jekyll project—with team leadership and product-level architecture. Based in Haidian, Beijing, he pairs enterprise-scale system design with a minimalist life-hacker mindset, often favoring simple, test-driven improvements that scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Technology, Master Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southeast University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
liquid10
jekyll10
ruby10
static-site-generator9
blog-engine9
delayed-job6
css6
capistrano6
media-queries6
google-chrome6
developer-tools6
roo6
ruby-on-rails6
markdown-it4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jekyll/jekyll
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Wanlong primarily contributed to the `jekyll/jekyll` repository by adding a `to_integer` filter, which converts input to an integer value, and implemented relevant unit tests for it. They also made several subsequent changes to refine the implementation, including error handling, improved exception messages, and code formatting. Their work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the project by adding new filters.
globestatic-siteliquidblog-engineruby
crispgm/markdown-table-formatter
Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
Format tables in GitHub Flavored Markdown
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 6 months
flavoredmarkdowngithub-flavored-markdown
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