Summary
Zelin Deng is a software engineer based in London with eight years' experience building web and mobile systems, currently contributing to WhatsApp Channels at Meta. He is fluent in Java, C, JavaScript and Kotlin, and combines strong frontend experience (React) with systems-oriented internships in codec tuning and misrepresentation detection. At Meta he reworked response routing using OOP and static analysis to boost extensibility and reduce configuration by 64%, and previously unified a department-wide EdTech frontend affecting 1,000+ users. Zelin’s background spans production-facing product work and research-style engineering, showing a knack for turning complex, error-prone configurations into maintainable systems. He describes himself as a learning developer and is consistently open to adopting new technologies and techniques.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
A-level, A-level at Concord College
Computing Software Engineering, Computing Software Engineering at Imperial College London