Zhongren Shao
Senior Software Engineer at Retell AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhongren Shao is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-ready systems across startups and large enterprises. He has a strong track record improving performance and security—examples include architecting a reusable integration framework that cut onboarding time by 80%, designing an agent that enabled $300k in net new ARR, and reducing cloud costs for PII detection by 50%. Comfortable across the stack, he has delivered React SPAs with serverless backends, optimized agents for massive data warehouses, and automated complex debugging and ingestion workflows. Zhongren combines pragmatic engineering with incident leadership, having resolved critical security events and implemented preventative fixes. He is active in open-source via two GitHub accounts and brings a practical, metrics-driven approach to reduce operational friction while scaling product capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonRaffles Institution
English, Chinese
Github Skills (51)
plaid10
editor9
mod-manager9
visual-studio-code-extension9
electron9
javascript9
npm9
visual-studio-code9
community-management9
algorithms9
desktop-application9
typescript9
zeal9
react9
rust9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
szhongren/leetcode
Mar 2017 - Jun 2025
Contributions:68 pushes in 8 years 4 months
szhongren/blog-react
May 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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