Summary
Yihan Zhao is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating scalable, reliable systems for companies from Alibaba and Amazon to fast-growth firms like Aconex, Afterpay and Marqo. He combines hands-on implementation with small-team leadership, having led platform initiatives around Kafka and Temporal to decouple and scale services across regions. Skilled in event-sourced architectures, CQRS, microservices and ML infrastructure, he has a track record of introducing new technologies into production and building end-to-end AI search systems. Comfortable across backend, frontend and deployment pipelines, he also brings practical experience in data migration at massive scale and automating CI/CD for multi-environment delivery. Based in Melbourne, he still prefers daily coding while mentoring teams to deliver resilient systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Nanjing University
English, Chinese