Summary
Zach X is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production systems at Google and YouTube, and is a Carnegie Mellon master’s student and incoming Googler with a track record across research, internships, and large-scale product teams. He bridges low-level systems work—implementing assembly-tracing algorithms during research at Tsinghua—with cloud-scale engineering at Google, demonstrating both reverse-engineering depth and production-grade software delivery. Comfortable across languages and environments, Zach has interned at X (the moonshot factory) and IBM, showing early exposure to ambitious, interdisciplinary projects. He’s known for turning vision into reliable implementations, combining academic rigor with pragmatic shipping discipline.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Queen Mary University of London