Summary
𓅍 Zhou is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 10 years of experience leading backend and sustained engineering teams across startups and large tech, currently managing teams at Google in New York. He has stepped up from hands-on backend roles to Head of Engineering and management positions at Seek, Cedar, and Stash, guiding product reliability and platform scalability. Known for "telling stories," he blends technical direction with narrative-driven communication to align engineers and stakeholders. His background spans full-stack API work through to staff-level architecture, with a track record of smoothing post-production complexity as a Sustained Engineering Lead. Comfortable in fast-moving product environments, he brings both deep implementation experience and a talent for translating complex technical trade-offs into clear roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Stuyvesant High School
Chinese, English