Summary
Xiaotian Zhao is a Senior Software and Security Engineer with over 10 years of full-stack experience building secure, cloud-native integrations and identity platforms for global enterprises. He specializes in .NET and Java backends, Angular frontends, and Azure services (AKS, Key Vault, API Management), and has hands-on experience hardening APIs with OAuth2/OpenID Connect, client certificates and managed identities. At ZEISS he led China-side identity-as-a-service and integration platform projects, bridging WeChat/Apple/SMS authentication and ensuring compliance with local data protection while embedding DevSecOps practices. His background spans automotive and finance domains at Tesla and Credit Suisse, where he combined frontend engineering, API design and secret management with containerized CI/CD pipelines. Trained academically at Stevens Institute of Technology and Nanjing Normal University, he brings an engineer’s rigor to architecture, secure design, and practical implementation across multinational cloud environments. An uncommon strength is his experience adapting global identity standards to Chinese platform constraints, including WeChat ecosystem integrations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.9, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.9 at Stevens Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.6, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.6 at Nanjing Normal University