Summary
Yixuan Zhao is a pragmatic back-end software engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-facing and cloud services at leading tech companies including Google, Lyft, and Amazon. With an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, he has shipped features spanning international cloud-drive launches, photo print recommendation services, and customer service tooling. Comfortable in large-scale, cross-functional environments, he combines solid engineering fundamentals with product-aware tradeoffs to drive reliable, user-focused systems. At Amazon he designed a smart-recommendation service to improve photo prints, and at Lyft and Google he continued applying that operational rigor to high-throughput back-end services. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he brings a blend of academic training and hands-on production experience to roles that require engineering depth and practical impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Software Engineering, BS, Computer Software Engineering at Beijing Technology and Business University
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Chinese