Zac Zhang
Software Engineer at Marqeta
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZac Zhang is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building data platforms, cloud-native systems, and payment infrastructure across fast-paced companies like Marqeta, Mimecast, Loblaw, Amazon, and nanopay. He combines a strong DevOps background with data engineering and payments domain knowledge to deliver scalable, production-grade services. Educated with a Master's in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Zac is comfortable operating across the full stack of cloud, data pipelines, and platform tooling. He has moved between startup and enterprise environments, which honed his ability to iterate quickly while maintaining operational reliability. Based in Old Toronto, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a knack for simplifying complex distributed systems. A detail that often surprises collaborators: his career blends deep operational experience from Amazon with product-focused payment engineering at Marqeta, giving him both systems rigor and business-facing perspective.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering , Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ningbo UniversityMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (8)
orientdb10
gwt10
modeling-tool10
bash7
linux7
web-development6
javascript6
developer-tools4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ZacZhang/NewsRecommendation
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ZacZhang/Coding_Practice
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:312 pushes in 2 years
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