Wenyu Zhao
Research Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWenyu Zhao is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate in Computer Science at The Australian National University with 11 years of engineering experience and a steady record of internships and research placements at Google. He combines systems and language-runtime experience—having worked on Chromium/V8—with academic rigor as a long-term research assistant at ANU. His repeated Google student researcher roles and a PhD internship signal an ability to translate cutting-edge research into practical, production-aware implementations. Based in Canberra, he balances deep technical work with public engagement through a personal site and active GitHub/Twitter presence. Notably, his GitHub persona wryly signals a persistent PhD mindset, hinting at resilience and a taste for intellectual challenge beyond standard engineering roles.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityChangzhou No.1 High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Monash University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
uefi10
bare-metal10
garbage-collector10
qemu10
memory-management10
java10
kernel10
openjdk10
armv810
raspberry-pi-os10
arm10
rust10
operating-system10
garbage-collection10
svn9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wenyuzhao/v8
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
🚀 My work on V8
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
mmtkgarbage-collectionv8-javascript-enginenim-language
wenyuzhao/wenyuzhao.github.io
Nov 2014 - Sep 2022
Wenyu Zhao's website
Contributions:735 commits, 17 PRs, 681 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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