Summary
Wilbur Zhang is a software engineer and University of Waterloo CS student with eight years of hands-on experience building production systems across fintech, recommender systems, LLM-powered search, and developer tooling. Currently at Kikoff in San Francisco, he focuses on credit-building solutions while previously contributing to DNA sequencing QA at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and developer ecosystems at ETHGlobal. He blends technical fluency in full-stack engineering with a design-thinking approach that connects software to arts and digital anthropology. Outside core product work he designs Canada’s largest hackathon and has created educational curricula for competitive programming, reflecting a knack for community-building and teaching. Known for a positive, active presence on GitHub, he brings a creative, user-centered perspective to complex engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English