Summary
Zhengkai Z is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack solutions across payments, self-driving, and infrastructure domains, currently on Uber’s Money team in the Bay Area. He brings a strong backend and data-processing background from Pony.ai and Pony.ai’s infra/data work, paired with front-end chops developed early at Infosys and PayPal’s consumer fundraising efforts. Trained at UCLA (BS) and UIUC (MS), he combines academic rigor with production experience delivering scalable, reliable systems. Having moved from Shanghai to the U.S. in 2012, he blends international perspective with practical engineering focus and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex financial and autonomous-vehicle systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Shanghainese