Weikang Zhao
Senior Full Stack Engineer at OpenInvest
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWeikang Zhao is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Melbourne with 8+ years building scalable web and backend systems across startups and enterprise projects. He’s delivered high-usage developer tooling and marketplace features at Xano, dramatically improving performance and launching a GitHub-style Actions marketplace, and now works on core systems at OpenInvest. Comfortable across Angular, NestJS, AWS serverless, Docker/Kubernetes and diverse stacks (C++, Unity, Python), he translates complex backend capabilities into intuitive user experiences. He has a track record of shipping AI-assisted developer tools, data generation and debugging features that accelerate QA and user troubleshooting. Early experience in enterprise consulting and as a store manager gives him a practical, user-focused approach to product delivery and team collaboration. He’s known for hands-on performance refactors and pragmatic solutions that balance developer ergonomics with production reliability.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology (Honours), Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology (Honours) at Deakin University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
obsidian9
markdown9
vscode-extension7
vscode7
autohotkey4
file-explorer3
code-completion2
typescript1
openai1
electron1
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SmarterTomato/SmartFormatter
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
A VS Code extension formats string in anyway you like. Similar functions to FreeFormatter.com
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
vscode-extensionvscode
SmarterTomato/SmartOpen
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Smart Open is a vscode extension help user better manage opened files
Contributions:3 releases, 30 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 11 months
vscode-extension
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