Yifan Zhou
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
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Management; Bachelor of Economics, Public Administration, 3.66/4.00, Bachelor of Management; Bachelor of Economics, Public Administration, 3.66/4.00 at Peking UniversityMaser of Science in Public Policy & Management – Data Analytics, 3.93, Maser of Science in Public Policy & Management – Data Analytics, 3.93 at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Github Skills (16)
q-learning3
actor-critic3
machine-learning3
python3
proximal-policy-optimization3
deep-q-network3
ddpg2
reinforcement-learning2
gymnasium2
dqn2
sentiment-analysis1
nltk1
sarsa1
sentiment1
nlp1
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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