Xu Zhou is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and APIs for large technology and finance firms, currently working on backend development and database management at Walmart. He has held engineering roles at Goldman Sachs and ByteDance (maintaining TikTok’s privacy settings, teen mode, and community safety modules) and contributed research at Harvard, blending product-focused mobile experience with server-side expertise. Proficient in Java, Python, Spring Boot, Flask, and Azure, he’s comfortable designing scalable services and integrating them with robust data layers. Holding master’s degrees from Fudan and Stevens Institute of Technology, he pairs strong academic foundations with production-grade engineering across high-impact, privacy-sensitive features. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving between iOS privacy work and backend platform development—which helps him bridge client-facing requirements with backend reliability.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Fudan University
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Improving AFL by using Intel PT to collect branch information
Contributions:116 commits, 58 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
collectfuzz-testingintelafl-fuzzfuzzing
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.