Zhiyuan Ning
Senior Software Engineer at Shopee
Singapore
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Top SchoolZhiyuan Ning is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with nine years of experience building backend systems for large-scale search and recommendation platforms at Shopee. He pairs strong backend expertise with full-stack and frontend experience (React/React Native) and a background in 2D/3D graphics, enabling pragmatic cross-domain solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed core issues and improved test coverage in the high-profile Bun JavaScript runtime, touching areas like transpilation, HTTP server behavior, and the fetch API. His engineering style emphasizes stability and observability, evidenced by prior work on Express.js services, unit testing, and deployment automation. Zhiyuan holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from NYU and brings a rare blend of geospatial academic roots and production-grade web systems experience.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at New York UniversityBachelor's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Bachelor's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Sun Yat-sen UniversitySummer session, Business Administration and Management, General, Summer session, Business Administration and Management, General at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
zig10
bundler10
testing10
transpiler9
nodejs6
typescript-types5
typescripts5
npm5
typescript5
react4
jsx4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oven-sh/bun
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 19 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhiyuan primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Bun runtime. They addressed issues in console logging, nested module installations, and fetch API behavior. Furthermore, the user enhanced the testing suite by adding new tests for features such as import aliases, as well as added the `toBeInstanceOf` matcher. The commits also involved modifying core files related to transpilation and the HTTP server.
runtimeexecutablejavascriptpackage-manageresmodules
zhiyuang/bun
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.
Contributions:31 pushes, 25 branches in 5 months
bundlerall-in-onejavascriptpackage-managerruntime
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