Zhu Liang
Founder at 16x Engineer
Singapore
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Top SchoolZhu Liang is a founder and product engineer based in Singapore with 12 years of experience building full‑stack web and AI products at startup and enterprise scale. He leads 16x Engineer, shipping tools for AI coding, model evaluation, and an autonomous video agent that automates niche YouTube short creation, and previously launched AI Simulator games that pushed RL training into mobile via tensorflow.js. A former Senior Frontend Engineer at Ant Group and full‑stack engineer at Grab, he has led distributed teams, managed large JavaScript monorepos, and modernized build tooling across high‑profile open‑source projects like socket.io and engine.io-client. His hands‑on contributions span Babel/webpack integrations, source‑map/debugging improvements, and game-agent logic for the Lux AI Challenge, reflecting deep expertise in build systems, front‑end UX, and agent design. Zhu combines product instinct with engineering velocity—proudly positioning his work as “16x speed”—and maintains an active public presence through livestreams, a newsletter, and open-source contributions. Unexpectedly, alongside engineering he’s a widely viewed street photographer, demonstrating a creative eye that informs his product and UX sensibilities.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing(B.Comp.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing(B.Comp.), Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, Japanese, English
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Github Skills (39)
babel610
environmental10
javascript10
transcode10
css10
user-interface10
android-recyclerview10
webpack10
enviroment10
ai10
webpacker10
transpiler10
babel-core10
html10
browserify10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
socketio/socket.io
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Zhu primarily focused on integrating Babel and related tools for JavaScript transpilation within the project. They implemented and refined Babel transformations using browserify API, modifying build processes and configurations. Additionally, the user worked on integrating webpack and source map generation to facilitate debugging and improve the development workflow. The contributions also include updating test cases, build configurations, and various file modifications to accommodate the integration.
realtimesocket-ionode-js-servernode-jsjavascript
TEAMMATES/teammates
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
This is the project website for the TEAMMATES feedback management tool for education
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 71 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Zhu primarily contributed to the front-end of the "TEAMMATES" project website. They completed the MVP with demo data, and updated the UI, including renaming a "visitor map" page to "user map". The commits show the user implementing and updating UI components, including styling and data visualization using the datamaps library. They added a data-driven map, including user data and the handling of country codes.
cssjavascriptteammatesfeedback-systemsproject-website
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