Zico Deng
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZico Deng is a software engineer in Seattle with nine years building scalable web services and developer-facing tools across startups and mid-size companies, currently contributing at Stripe. He has driven impactful backend work—owning shipment automation microservices at Convoy that cut alerts by 80% and reduced support tickets by 42%—and built integrations that lowered per-shipment costs through iPaaS migration. Prior roles span networking and security-focused product work at Ubiquiti and ExtraHop, where he shipped a real-time cyberthreat map and visitor management tooling, blending front-end polish with systems engineering. Zico also mentors and teaches—running bootcamps and career coaching—reflecting a knack for translating complex systems to learners. He deliberately seeks uncomfortable challenges, favoring hands-on ownership of both developer UX and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Information Technology, 3.42, Informatics, Information Technology, 3.42 at University of WashingtonFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampA+, A+ at YALI High SchoolInformatics, Information Technology, Informatics, Information Technology at University of Washington Information School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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10answers
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Github Skills (97)
apollo-server10
apollo-client10
color-thief10
docz10
apollographql10
js10
webpack-dev-server10
babel-plugin10
graphql-client10
react10
javascript9
devtools9
angular9
cli9
swift9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zicodeng/session-id-token
May 2019 - Feb 2021
An utility library for generating digitally signed and base64 encoded session token based on cryptographically random session ID
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
base64
zicodeng/checkmate
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 10 PRs, 51 pushes in 14 days
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