Yukun Zhang
Software Engineer at Meta
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYukun Zhang is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack, scalable web systems using React, Java/Kotlin, and AWS. He has driven measurable product and revenue impact at major tech companies—shipping homepage personalization and carousel features at DoorDash that boosted GMV and ad revenue, and improving Alexa proactive channels and onboarding pipelines at Amazon to raise engagement and cut onboarding time from a week to a day. Comfortable across backend and frontend, he blends systems thinking with hands-on coding, from dataloader optimization that eliminated duplicate calls to multi-byte-aware edits to a popular vim plugin. A Santa Clara University master’s graduate based in Fremont, he favors pragmatic automation and thoughtful performance trade-offs to turn complex requirements into reliable, user-facing features.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science & Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science & Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at 天津理工大学
Github Skills (7)
vim10
programming-language10
vim-plugin10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matze/vim-move
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Plugin to move lines and selections up and down
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Yukun primarily contributed to the `vim-move` plugin, focusing on enhancing its functionality and addressing bugs related to horizontal movement and cursor positioning. Their work involved modifying the core logic of the plugin, specifically the `MoveBlockLeft`, `MoveBlockRight`, `MoveCharLeft`, and `MoveCharRight` functions. They made several code changes to handle multi-byte characters, preserve cursor positions, and prevent clobbering registers.
vimlinesvim-pluginpluginvim-script
yukunlin/nagini
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 1 month
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