Yan Zhang
VP Of Technology at CITCON
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Zhang is a seasoned technology leader and VP of Technology with eight years of professional software engineering experience and a decade-plus background spanning embedded systems, web, mobile, and cloud. He led architecture and engineering at Citcon, designing the Universal Payment Interface and steering both e-commerce and in-store POS products, and previously built cross-platform media SDKs at Adobe and analytics platforms at Nokia/Motally. Comfortable across languages from Java, PHP and JavaScript to C/C++ and Objective-C, he pairs hands-on implementation with infrastructure and DevOps know-how (AWS, Linux) and strong bilingual technical communication in English and Mandarin. A pragmatic problem-solver with research roots at Tsinghua and UC Berkeley, he brings both academic rigor and startup grit—cofounding a cloud/mobile services company and shipping production systems that bridge client apps, backend APIs and payments.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Master of Science Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering & Automation, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering & Automation at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science Control Science & Engineering, Master of Science Control Science & Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (11)
woocommerce6
wordpress6
wordpress-plugin6
upi1
php1
alipay1
ios1
sdk1
credit1
wechat1
payment1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Citcon/chop_coffee_demo
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
creditpayalipayonline-paymenthosted
Citcon/woocommerce-gateway-citcon
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
WooCommerce Plugin
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
wordpresswordpress-pluginwoocommercewoocommerce-plugin
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