Summary
Yujie Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building scalable distributed systems, cloud migrations, and developer-centric infrastructure. He has led major platform migrations to Azure, containerized legacy apps with Docker and Kubernetes, and modernized CI/CD using Argo Rollouts to enable feature-branch deployments and safer automated rollouts. At PlanetScale he reduced multi-cloud backup storage by over 50% through automation and built reusable frontend state components, demonstrating full-stack fluency across backend infrastructure and user-facing tooling. Yujie is focused on developer tools and cloud-native infrastructure, thrives on continuous learning, and brings a pragmatic habit of turning operational pain points into automated, measurable improvements. An unusual strength is his blend of hands-on migration experience and developer-experience improvements, bridging platform reliability with faster developer iteration.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Integrated Physiology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Integrated Physiology at The University of Edinburgh