Zihang Ruan
Software Engineer at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolZihang Ruan is a software engineer based in Redwood City with 11 years of experience and a BS in Computer Science from San Jose State University. He has production experience at Meta and Goldman Sachs and strong backend skills in Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka, complemented by front-end work in React. His open-source contributions to the Diem blockchain focused on consensus and persistent storage, including refactoring vote logic and implementing ledger recovery and startup sync — evidence of deep systems and distributed-systems instincts. At Facebook he built tooling for 3D and 360 media, showing an ability to bridge backend data models with developer-facing web tools. He combines enterprise-grade engineering discipline with hands-on protocol-level thinking, making him comfortable both shipping services at scale and contributing to complex core systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
persistent-storage10
algorithm10
aptos10
move10
consensus10
rust10
network-protocol10
blockchain10
block-storage10
smart-contracts8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
diem/diem
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 44 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zihang primarily focused on modifying the core consensus mechanism within the Diem blockchain project. Their commits involve removing and refactoring vote-related logic within the block store hierarchy. The changes also include adding new data types for ledger recovery, and implementing a startup sync processor to retrieve blocks. The contributions demonstrate a focus on the consensus layer and persistent storage aspects of the blockchain implementation.
diemfinancialtrustedethereumblockchain
ZhenjieRuan/libra
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
Contributions:43 pushes, 11 branches in 6 months
financialreactjavascriptinfrastructurecurrency
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