Zhenchao Gan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure for ads and logging platforms at companies including Databricks, Google, and Snap. He has deep backend and systems expertise—shaping YouTube Ads serving and monetization infra—and strong front-end experience from React/Redux tooling for monetization workflows. Based in Bellevue, he combines production-grade distributed systems work with developer-facing platforms, currently driving Databricks’ logging platform. An active open-source maintainer, he authors the widely starred "Solutions to CLRS" repository (~8k stars) and contributes to react-big-calendar, signaling a blend of algorithmic rigor and practical UI tooling. Colleagues know him for turning complex, cross-team requirements into reliable, observable systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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Zhenchao Gan - Staff Software Engineer at Databricks