Yuzhou Zhu
Software Engineer at Canva
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolYuzhou Zhu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years’ experience architecting and building large-scale mobile and web applications, now based in New South Wales, Australia. He has progressed from hands-on iOS development to leadership roles—Head of Engineering and Engineering Manager—driving cross-platform architecture projects that leverage C++, gRPC, RocksDB and Bazel to share business logic across mobile platforms. At SafetyCulture he initiated and led a major re-architecture for mobile apps and later held staff-level engineering roles before joining Canva. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks, he also brings backend and DevOps experience from earlier roles building APIs with Django and deploying services on Linux/Nginx. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic engineering with a deep interest in cross-platform performance and maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Master of Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Fudan UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business & Computing, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business & Computing at University of Malta
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,506reputation
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22answers
12questions
unit-testing
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Github Skills (110)
python10
authentication10
data-interchange10
ruby10
protoc10
timezone10
cpp10
firebase-authentication10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
protobuf10
grpc10
serialization10
rpc10
android10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SafetyCulture/protobuf
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
protocol-buffersgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatprotobufbuffers
SafetyCulture/grpc
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Contributions:12 PRs, 20 pushes, 61 branches in 3 years 8 months
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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