Yifan Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at EAB
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience who excels at building scalable Ruby on Rails platforms and improving developer experience across CRM and payment systems. At EAB he designed reusable custom fields and CRUD abstractions, led a robust Stripe recurring gifts integration with strong idempotency guarantees, and systematically reduced friction by automating flaky-test isolation and optimizing CI/CD. Twelve months of production triage sharpened his ability to diagnose complex distributed-system failures and deliver durable fixes rather than quick patches. He blends a data-informed background from CMU Heinz and Peking University with hands-on engineering, often surfacing non-obvious bottlenecks in team workflows to accelerate velocity. Based in Virginia, he prefers long-term, maintainable solutions and carries a “high-agency” mindset that turns operational pain points into scalable platform features.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Management; Bachelor of Economics, Public Administration, Bachelor of Management; Bachelor of Economics, Public Administration at Peking UniversityMaser of Science in Public Policy & Management – Data Analytics, Maser of Science in Public Policy & Management – Data Analytics at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Github Skills (14)
q-learning8
actor-critic8
deep-q-network8
dqn7
ddpg6
reinforcement-learning6
proximal-policy-optimization6
sarsa5
machine-learning5
sentiment-analysis1
nltk1
nlp1
sentiment1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
YifanZhou95/diversity-promoting-dialogue-system
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
YifanZhou95/Bayesian-Personalized-Ranking
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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