Zhen Guan
Software Engineer II at Confluent
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhen Guan is a backend software engineer with a decade of experience now focused on cloud growth at Confluent, where he progressed from intern to Software Engineer II within a few years. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a high-performing CS undergraduate degree from UC Irvine (magna cum laude), reflecting strong academic rigor. Zhen’s practical background spans fintech at Tencent, enterprise networking at Cisco, and research-driven open-source work on Texera, giving him a blend of production-grade and research-oriented engineering. Comfortable shipping services in cloud-native environments, he combines fast iteration as an intern-turned-full-time at Confluent with a knack for making growth-focused backend systems reliable and scalable. Not immediately obvious: he’s repeatedly converted short-term internship projects into longer-term roles, demonstrating adaptability and rapid impact.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (200)
zero-configuration10
mobile-development10
attributedstring10
microfrontend10
connectivity10
nsattributedstring10
javascript10
app-framework10
wechat10
socket10
obj10
carthage10
swift10
developer-tools10
json10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dustturtle/RealReachability
Jan 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:16 releases, 103 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 9 months
connectivitycocoapodsreachabilitynetworkingnetwork-monitoring
dustturtle/BaseViewControllerDemo
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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