Zhang Xia
Technical Lead at PayPal
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhang Xia is a seasoned Technical Lead based in Shanghai with over 18 years of Java development experience and more than a decade of people leadership, architecture and delivery ownership. He has designed and led backend and microservice architectures, CI/CD pipelines and verification platforms for organizations including PayPal and ThoughtWorks, while also doubling as a scrum master and agile coach to improve team processes. Strong in J2EE/Spring/Hibernate, databases (MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB) and familiar with Node.js, Ruby and React/Angular, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and code review responsibilities. Beyond core engineering, he has repeatedly driven cross-functional alignment—working with product owners and PD managers to turn roadmaps into prioritized, testable stories—and contributed practical test automation work on open repositories. Known for pragmatic architecture and rapid production hot-fixes, he brings a blend of deep technical craft and process-focused leadership.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Shanghai University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
unit-testing10
test-automation10
javascript9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tws-practice/collection-calculate-camp
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:99 commits, 14 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhang primarily focused on creating and modifying test files within the repository. Their contributions involved writing tests for various functionalities, including calculating sums, finding maximum and minimum numbers, computing averages and medians, and testing collection operations. The changes suggest the user was responsible for ensuring the correctness and reliability of the code through comprehensive testing. The user implemented unit tests using a testing framework.
TWA-Practice-Group/letusgo
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 PRs, 73 pushes, 14 branches in 19 days
gulpjqueryjavascriptexpressnodejs
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