Summary
Zijie K is a pragmatic back-end developer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems for startups and enterprise teams, currently strengthening financial infrastructure at Forma. He excels at automating workflows and shipping reliable services quickly—on day one at Forma he helped migrate $10M and later built the first CI pipeline for a new ledger service. A former full-stack and DevOps engineer at Flexport and framework developer at Wolfram, he brings a rare blend of low-latency knowledge-system experience and hands-on fintech transaction engineering. Comfortable across the stack, Zijie favors clean code, high-impact automation, and pragmatic solutions that reduce operational toil. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines startup grit with a strong computer science foundation from University of Michigan and UIUC.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English, Shanghainese